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		cloudwalking on Aug 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Large-scale Amazon EC2 Outage Data synchronization between data centers is tough. There's A LOT of data moving in those data centers all once--it isn't easy to mirror that across the country in real time.

diolpah on Aug 9, 2011 [–]

That's why the good lord invented eventually consistent data synchronization models. If your use case can tolerate it, use it.

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