[gtaylor]

I'm in NYC1 and NYC2 and it seems like there is maintenance at least once a month, if not more. Luckily, my application is very fault-tolerant, but it is surprising how often they are emailing me about maintenance outages (however brief they may be).

[api]

I get those messages too but I have monitoring running and don't actually see detectable downtime. So I guess they're brief or very selective outages.

[gtaylor]

I've got a bunch of monitoring set up on my instances there, and while it does usually result in actual downtime, it's not too long.

Even still, the downtime is frequent enough to where it'd be a bad fit for anything too serious. If our platform at work were to go down for 10 minute periods every month, our inboxes would be full of "What's going on?!?!" emails in short order.