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My Mental Model of AWS Regions

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By Corey Quinn

Usually when I talk about AWS regions and availability zones, it ties back to [data transfer pricing] or some other model of cloud economics. Today I want to take a different angle: it's my belief that how I think about AWS regions and how AWS talks about them are somewhat far apart. The reason I'm doing this in blog form instead of as a Twitter stunt or whatnot is that I'm not particularly intending to be funny, and to be transparent, I'm not completely sure whether I'm right or not. Let's dive in.

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Your Disaster Recovery Plan is a Joke Written by Clowns

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By Corey Quinn

If you take a look somewhere in an engineering VP or Director’s office, you’ll find a binder that hasn’t been touched in a while labeled “DR / BCM Plan.” Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Management planning are important things to take into consideration. But the clowns you work for have almost certainly screwed it up […]

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Disaster Recovery Considerations in AWS

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By Corey Quinn

A few thoughts on Disaster Recovery planning in AWS environments that most people apparently gloss right over.

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