That's also the beauty of Rightscale. If you do everything correctly you should be able to provision a new server in another region if need be or even another c

That's also the beauty of Rightscale. If you do everything correctly you should be able to provision a new server in another region if need be or even another cloud (ie Rackspace). Most outages of AWS don't last more than a few hours. The real goal is to make sure your infrastructure can hobble on one leg for those few hours until help arrives and you can cleanup the mess once the outage is over. When the API goes down it sure isn't fun. Just try to project yourself the best you can. I had no problems with Rightscale last night other than anything trying to reach EC2.