I optimize for escape hatches. Because if everything is on fire I want the ability to be able to bail(fix it). There's no point in waking up when everything is

I optimize for escape hatches. Because if everything is on fire I want the ability to be able to bail(fix it). There's no point in waking up when everything is blowing up if you don't have the access to fix the underlying issue. AWS doesn't actually guarantee 99.9% uptime. What they guarantee is they'll give you some company currency[1] if they can't meet or exceed 99.9% uptime. So the next time the ship is on fire, don't worry, stay asleep and your Amazon account manager will be by shortly with a thimble of water to throw on you :) [1] - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/aws-systems-manager-announces-service-level-agreement/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/aws-syste...