Interesting observation. Maybe the answer is it that a behemoth like AWS does this because they _can_ get away with it. In contrast to AWS's cascading failures,

Interesting observation. Maybe the answer is it that a behemoth like AWS does this because they _can_ get away with it. In contrast to AWS's cascading failures, the GitLab outage was a mere blip. Because they are several orders of magnitude smaller than Amazon, however, they had to be painfully transparent during their actual restore operations and in the post-moterm. AWS has more implicit trust that this won't happen again, since they've never (I think?) had something like this happen, so just a few lines about fixing the tool that let all the nodes shutdown is enough to restore confidence.