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Cloud datacenters are not complex heterogeneous mixes of components. There's no SAN head. It's one thing multiplied + some networking gear. Even if a top of rack switch fails they're still not going to yank the box yet because the TCO will be lowered by too much maintenance at this scale. They wait for their maint interval and fix everything at once (or just upgrade the hardware).


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