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bowlofpetunias
on Oct 27, 2013
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AWS instance was scheduled for retirement
I've learned a long time ago to treat traditional servers in a rack like they can disappear (or get compromised) at any time for a huge range of reasons. You can never be too paranoid.
manmal
on Oct 27, 2013
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Yeah, I like how Netflix even goes so far as killing instances randomly:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/10/netflix-chaos-monkeys/
jpitz
on Oct 27, 2013
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This ^^^ comment cannot be upvoted enough. Please treat all servers, virtual or not, as ephemeral.
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