Disagree on two counts. 1) Like any utility, the cloud is predicated on the assumption that it never goes down. If AWS itself goes down, it causes knock-on eff

Disagree on two counts. 1) Like any utility, the cloud is predicated on the assumption that it never goes down. If AWS itself goes down, it causes knock-on effects more most mid-sized (i.e. 1 region, multi-AZ) services on their platform, so we can't have it. 2) If we're going to have to accept downtime (1) then yes, it IS time we rethink the cloud--either how we can achieve no downtime, or how we achieve fault-tolerance in some other way.