For an example of this taken to a ludicrous extreme, several years ago an AWS user complained that downtime of a few EC2 instances were putting lives at risk. T

For an example of this taken to a ludicrous extreme, several years ago an AWS user complained that downtime of a few EC2 instances were putting lives at risk. They were hosting cardiac monitoring services on single EC2 instances with no multi-AZ or multi-region capability. AWS forum post: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=65649&tstart=0 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=65649&tst... Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477345