ELB doesn't work across regions, the failure at EC2 affected multiple Availability zones in the Virginia Region. ELB might have helped, but it's likely that some people had all their "availabiliy" zones knocked out.
In fact, it's looking like all the automatic-failovers from people hosting on those data centers compounded the problem when everyone's scripts tried to recover at the same time – what was referred to in a previous article as a "bank run".
But yeah, if you're doing heart monitoring, you need to have your servers replicated across a wide geographic area.
In fact, it's looking like all the automatic-failovers from people hosting on those data centers compounded the problem when everyone's scripts tried to recover at the same time – what was referred to in a previous article as a "bank run".
But yeah, if you're doing heart monitoring, you need to have your servers replicated across a wide geographic area.