I don't mind being on-call for my service over holidays, because at least for my service there's significantly less traffic, but mainly because all the develope

I don't mind being on-call for my service over holidays, because at least for my service there's significantly less traffic, but mainly because all the developers are on vacation, and most outages are caused by new software or modified configs. That was true in this case with AWS. Whoever was in there on Dec 24th modifying load balancer configs should have just taken the day off instead.