DOWN FOR LESS THAN FOUR MINUTES A MONTH: HOW AWS DEPLOYS CODE

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

AWS gives customers service credits if it fails to maintain 99.9% uptime. It uses automation to respond to issues - its Monthly Uptime Percentage commitment means there's no time for manual action at all. This article takes a look at how AWS achieves this feat. While some of its deployment processes can be hard to adopt without AWS' scale and maturity, most of the core principles can be applied by startups.