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by lt 2473 days ago
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-disaster-recovery.p...

> The term pilot light is often used to describe a DR scenario in which a minimal version of an environment is always running in the cloud. The idea of the pilot light is an analogy that comes from the gas heater. In a gas heater, a small flame that’s always on can quickly ignite the entire furnace to heat up a house

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> In a gas heater, a small flame that’s always on can quickly ignite the entire furnace to heat up a house

Sure, I’m being nitpicky, but that’s a terrible explanation of the purpose of a pilot light in a legacy furnace.