I have to echo everything you're saying here. Anyone putting anything in "the cloud" and not designing for failure as a first principle is shooting themselves

I have to echo everything you're saying here. Anyone putting anything in "the cloud" and not designing for failure as a first principle is shooting themselves in the foot. I've encountered a lot of folks trying to do this and building systems that can't tolerate downtime and it starts long, difficult conversations always. But I've never once needed to actually pay attention to those instance retirement emails or GCP auto-migrations. We've built to expect it and we let the provider handle that for us. Time saved for everyone.