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		upinsmoke on April 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Heroku's AWS outage post-mortem You are comparing IaaS to PaaS. They are not the same.

PakG1 on April 29, 2011 [–]

Fair enough, point well taken. But I don't think acknowledging that difference changes the crux of the Q&A here. What IaaS does it better than AWS? Seriously. It's not a surprise that Heroku, Engineyard, and various other PaaS options are built on AWS.

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