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		seiji on Nov 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Announces new Data Warehousing Product Doesn't RDS crap itself whenever there's a core AWS problem?

semiquaver on Nov 28, 2012 [–]

Yes, since it relies on EBS for persistence, which has been one of the flakiest parts of AWS so far.

ceejayoz on Nov 28, 2012 | [–]

All it takes is an EBS outage to determine this.

In the last one, RDS and ELB had issues (and were flagged as such on their status board) due to needing EBS, but I don't believe DynamoDB was.

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