Not least, he says that the impact of the outage could have been reduced if clients had been using more than one availability zone to run their cloud businesses.

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Last weeks outage only affected EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone, so those customers running with adequate capacity in other Availability Zones in the US East Region were able to tolerate the event with limited impact to their applications.

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By reducing credit availability national central banks can contravene the euro zone's wider monetary stance.

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