How Netflix does failovers in 7 minutes flat: 
During winter 2012, Netflix suffered an extended outage that lasted for seven hours due to problems in the AWS Elastic Load Balancer service in the US-East region. (Netflix runs on Amazon Web Services [AWS]—we don’t have any data centers of our own. All of your interactions with Netflix are served from AWS, except the actual streaming of the video.
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