We will be adjusting our roadmap to give VPC customers access to multiple Availability Zones as soon as possible.

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This will allow VPC customers to build highly-available applications using multiple Availability Zones just as EC2 customers not using a VPC do today.

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For example, the critical cloud-based services of many companies (including our own) had no downtime during the incident in June, mainly because of the use of multiple, redundant availability zones.

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Amazon Web Services even offers tools to help, including regions, availability zones, and multiple types of storage services.

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