>It's probably not wise to rely on your provider's monitoring for such critical things. As AWS has proven, their alerts are slow, and even if they weren't, they

>It's probably not wise to rely on your provider's monitoring for such critical things. As AWS has proven, their alerts are slow, and even if they weren't, they aren't monitoring the very specific thing you need. In this particular case they are not monitoring that they lost an entire zone? This seems like a cop-out to cover up for the fact that they didn't reveal a major outage that they most definitely monitor internally.