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How Much Uptime Does Your Application Need?

How Much Uptime Does Your Application Need?

By Bob Warfield on May 24, 2010

I was having an interesting discussion with a friend recently about Amazon’s spot instance pricing for EC2 that prompted me to write this post.  Let me walk you through how it went, because I think it replays some of the thinking that all startups should go through about their online service.  BTW, hat tip to Geva […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Amazon, Business-to-Business, Cloud, downtime, Grid computing, SaaS, spot pricing, uptime

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