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To sum up: it's gonna fall over at any minute without a continuous injection of money.

My take-away was "this is why when EC2 when down it wasn't just a case of rebooting the server". My other thought was "and how did all of this help you when EC2 went down?"

That was my thought too, the multiple mentions of "stuff" in different zones had me wondering why the recent EC2 outage was able to get them.

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