It's okay to conclude after a root cause analysis that the root cause is not something you want to work to prevent, because the cost-benefit is skewed. For som

It's okay to conclude after a root cause analysis that the root cause is not something you want to work to prevent, because the cost-benefit is skewed. For some products a AWS S3 [1] outage might be a influential enough that they add a redundant second storage at another provider, for other it might be "this is too expensive and time consuming to work around for the problems it caused, let's hope Amazon gets their shit together" [1] https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/