Why didn’t Amazon’s crash take ShopSavvy down?
Several folks emailed me asking why we didn’t go down because they know we use Amazon’s Cloud for ShopSavvy. Last night Amazon’s cloud crashed taking down a number of other companies. Great news, ShopSavvy did’t go down. Two weeks ago I wrote a post detailing our server environment locally and in the Amazon Cloud. The easy answer is that we have two sets of infrastructure hosting our backend – if Amazon goes down our data center takes over and vice versa.