We (I work for AWS) call it "Architecting for Failure", but yes, you could call it that too. =) In an ideal application, instances are a commodity. Not every w

We (I work for AWS) call it "Architecting for Failure", but yes, you could call it that too. =) In an ideal application, instances are a commodity. Not every workload is there yet, so there's a need still for individual instance recovery. But it's something we and our customers strive for.