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That first bit only works if you're already backing up to AWS. Moving terra-bytes of data into the cloud isn't quick and spinning up servers quickly isn't something that's going to help if your primary site goes down for many (most?) types of applications.

The bottle-neck isn't the provisioning speed. I can run a few shell scripts and have a new local VM in a couple minutes. Less if I cared to. That doesn't get media or databases from here to there though.




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