Once upon a time there was EC2, without EBS. It was actually a pretty good place to be. There was no ambiguity because everyone who used EC2 was given a lot of

Once upon a time there was EC2, without EBS. It was actually a pretty good place to be. There was no ambiguity because everyone who used EC2 was given a lot of warnings about how they'd have to architect their systems to avoid critical failure. I wonder if the introduction of EBS has actually increased data loss because people aren't as paranoid about it.