Really the issue with Elasticache and RDS is that when they go down and fail over to new hardware, we have no idea what happened to cause an (admittedly brief)

Really the issue with Elasticache and RDS is that when they go down and fail over to new hardware, we have no idea what happened to cause an (admittedly brief) outage. Basically, we just open a support ticket and say "what happened", and they just say "oh, the machine failed and was rebooted"