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True story I heard from some Amazon engineers.

Amazon doesn't (directly) monitor whether their servers are up. They just look at the revenue graph in real-time, and if there's a noticeable dip, something's wrong.



Right, although they don't have to manually look at this -- they have many sophisticated monitors in place that immediately notify engineers if things are not in normal ranges.




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