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Actual quote in the Amazon support forums from this company:

"This not just some social network website issue, but a serious threat to peoples lives!"



I have a feeling (and I really really hope) this is a joke because of that sentence.


An event monitor isn't a life-critical system. Perhaps it messes up a study, and ticks off some cardiologists, but it's not as if somebody's implantable defibrillator is depending on EC2 being online.




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