Amazon just released another new feature for the Elastic Compute Cloud that allows you to specify physically different locations when launching an EC2 instance. It's called Availability Zones. This means that if there is a major data center issue such as a network outage or even a fire in one Availability Zone, it will not affect an instance running in a different zone. High availability on the cheap... a beautiful thing.
"Previously, only very large companies had the scale to be able to distribute an application across multiple locations, but now it is as easy as changing a parameter in an API call."
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