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demandredon Amazon S3+SQS are down, bringing down Scribd, Docstoc, Twitter, SmugMug, JungleDisk

so the analogy still works. AWS=electricity for startups. For restaurants the power does sometimes go out too. If it's life critical, like a hospital, I'm sure you'll be fully redundant.

demandredon Amazon S3+SQS are down, bringing down Scribd, Docstoc, Twitter, SmugMug, JungleDisk

data center = electricity for startups. why is this analogy funny?

Instead of running their own generator (server and storage), for those startups who don't need to, they can use Amazon's power, AWS.

am I missing something here?

demandredon Ask YC: What do you think about Startuply?

no space for a 'stealth' startup without entering in dummy info.