I'd argue the recent deploy to AWS actually ought to increase the ease with which you can fail over: it's basically a new deployment to AWS. You can/should be a

I'd argue the recent deploy to AWS actually ought to increase the ease with which you can fail over: it's basically a new deployment to AWS. You can/should be able to use the same deployment process as a starting point for fail overs, which is a huge advantage as compared to a cluster that nobody knows exactly how it was setup.