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.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.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.It sounds like their product is a) crap and b) dangerous if used for critical care.