Company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2
Epic fail for the company which is hosting on their kit.  Whoever threw it on there is a total dick.  There is nothing wrong with EC2 here.  It's just not the right tool for the job.<p>If they are monitoring cardiac patients, they should, at least for non-critical people, have the instrumentation cache the data and send when available over leased lines.<p>If it is critical, it should be PROPER HARDWARE attached to the POTS network (like we have in the UK!) with multiple redundant networks over several distinct carriers and multiple monitoring stations.<p>It sounds like their product is a) crap and b) dangerous if used for critical care.