not sure why this kind of 'sky is falling' post is allowed, particularly when there's no useful information provided - status boards are rarely up to date, mak

not sure why this kind of 'sky is falling' post is allowed, particularly when there's no useful information provided - status boards are rarely up to date, make sure you have your own internal/external monitoring - a single vm instance does not indicate the health of an entire region. instances can be stopped for a variety of reasons, check the maintenance log and vm console - when using cloud resources, architecture should not be dependent on a single vm instance - your cloud architecture and app code should be built to handle transient failures from the start - queueing, retries, backoffs, load-shedding, graceful state failure, etc. use cloud-native services when possible, lift-and-shift of traditional vm architecture to the cloud can be operationally difficult and expensive to run