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qaqtoday at 12:07 AM1 replyview on HN

It's no magic given the size of us-east-1 there is no spare capacity to absorb all the workloads


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8organicbitstoday at 1:00 AM

One of the SRE tricks is to reserve your capacity so when the cloud runs out of capacity you're still covered. It's expensive, but you don't want to get stuck without a server when the on-demand dries up.