[waz0wski]

not sure why this kind of 'sky is falling' post is allowed, particularly when there's no useful information provided

- status boards are rarely up to date, make sure you have your own internal/external monitoring

- a single vm instance does not indicate the health of an entire region. instances can be stopped for a variety of reasons, check the maintenance log and vm console

- when using cloud resources, architecture should not be dependent on a single vm instance

- your cloud architecture and app code should be built to handle transient failures from the start - queueing, retries, backoffs, load-shedding, graceful state failure, etc. use cloud-native services when possible, lift-and-shift of traditional vm architecture to the cloud can be operationally difficult and expensive to run

[discodave]

Joke answer: Because dumping on AWS is fun!

Serious answer: People will confirm or not in the comments, this post seems pretty reasonable, if a little trigger happy. It could just be a random launch failure.