Yeah, monitoring told us it was down and eventually we figured it was an AWS issue we could do nothing about until they patched it. My main point there is actua

Yeah, monitoring told us it was down and eventually we figured it was an AWS issue we could do nothing about until they patched it. My main point there is actually that for many use cases, this doesn't have to be a distributed computing problem and thus the non-distributed version is superior to the distributed version.