Most of the higher-level services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service(S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), have been built with fault tolerance and high availability in mind. Service that provide basic infrastructure, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), provide specific features, such as availability zones, elastic IP address, and snapshots, that a fault-tolerant and high available system must take advantage of and use correctly. Just moving a system into the cloud doesn't make it fault-tolerant or highly available.
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