Even if you were in multiple AZs (we were, including a multi-AZ RDS deployment) there was a chance you where going to go down (which we did). Being in a differe

Even if you were in multiple AZs (we were, including a multi-AZ RDS deployment) there was a chance you where going to go down (which we did). Being in a different region entirely was the only "guarantee" that you wouldn't have gone down (while we were waiting to be able to actually restore snapshots we started creating a cold-swap copy of our environment on Rackspace so we'll have some quicker way of getting back online).