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Why not just migrate the resources? Spin up new instances, load data from snapshots, get back to work.
by lonelappde 6y ago
Why not just migrate the resources?
Spin up new instances, load data from snapshots, get back to work.
- tcgv 6y agoProbably because paying 5 figures to the account owner was cheaper, faster and safer than recreating the production env from scratch
- tly_alex 6y agoMigration on resources taking live traffic is not an easy thing. Before migrating the traffic over to a different end-point, the time and the engineering work to make sure the new endpoints works is money and cost. Also there could be statefull data in the original account and to do a live migration of data with new data coming in at X tps is absolutely hard work.