[paulddraper]

> First, if you don't notice some random/unexpected EC2 instance failures, you don't have a big EC2 deployment.

The parent didn't claim they don't happen, just that (1) they were rare (a point you agree with, given the minimum usage needed to notice them) and (2) multi-AZ, multi-region failures nearly non-existent.

> The point is that even when you're using EC2, you still have to set all of that up.

It takes literally minutes to set up an ELB and Autoscaling group across five availability zones. How long does the non-cloud version of that take?