[withinboredom]

I remember when we first moved to the cloud from a datacenter. It was in us-east-1, and literally the day after the switch over (before we started configuring multi-region) was the first time us-east-1 had its major outage.

The owners were pissed that it had gone down and it wasn't that it went down, it was that we were basically sitting around with our thumbs up our ass. When things went down in our DC, we just fixed them or at least we could give an ETA until things went back to normal. We had absolutely nothing. We couldn't access anything, and AWS was being slow in acknowledging an issue even existed.

That was a good lesson that day: the cloud is not necessarily better.