Heroku stung by Amazon outage
Heroku, the popular platform as a service, had a pretty rough time last night. Impacted by the Amazon Web Services disruption at Amazon’s U.S. East data center, Heroku took a tumble as outlined on the company’s status page and was offline for a few hours. Beneath all the trash talk about the risks of using the public cloud, the sites affected by the AWS outage were those that deployed heavily on one Amazon region (U.S. East in Ashburn, Va.) That over-reliance is a practice that Amazon expressly advises against, as several GigaOM readers commented on our previous story. Smart companies hedge their bets by deploying across AWS regions just as smart companies plan for redundancy when they deploy in their own data centers.
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