> we never had any issues, because we didn't depend on calling AWS APIs to continue operating. Things already running continue to run.
I think it was just luck of the draw that the failure happened in this way and not some other way. Even if APIs falling over but EC2 instances remaining up is a slightly more likely failure mode, it means you can't run autoscaling, can't depend on spot instances which in an outage you can lose and can't replace.
I think it was just luck of the draw that the failure happened in this way and not some other way. Even if APIs falling over but EC2 instances remaining up is a slightly more likely failure mode, it means you can't run autoscaling, can't depend on spot instances which in an outage you can lose and can't replace.