Yeah, everybody thinks that their cloud database dujour has them covered. Then by accident they learn that it was not automatically "highly available" and that

Yeah, everybody thinks that their cloud database dujour has them covered. Then by accident they learn that it was not automatically "highly available" and that they need to restore from backup...yesterday's backup...and yes, the laws of physics still apply (the database doesn't index itself). There are a staggering amount of configurations resulting in a number of states, most of which are not desirable for anything beyond the dev environment. Senior devs think you're a fucking wizard if you understand 20% of it. Scary.