[dijit]

realistically if AWS is down for 1+ day in that region you will be wondering very much if they're coming back in just 1hr more, 1 more day, 1 month or if at all.

Yeah, it's kind of "incredible" that they'd be gone for so long, but I've been on AWS during long outages before and it's never certain how long it will go on for and if data will be kept.

We assume too much I think of our providers, and I believe that's what the post is about. If you already _know_ AWS will be down for 30 days then you can make an informed decision based on that.

For me, there's no difference between 8 hours or 80, if you're down more than 8hrs I'm going to activate my redundancies. But: I have redundancies. Many people don't.

[ninju]

Curious has AWS us-east-1 ever been down for more that 8+ hours at a time?