> Third, you’re gonna go down when the cloud goes down. Not much use getting overly bent out of shape.

Ugh. I have a hard time with this one. Back in the day, EBS had some really awful failures and degradations. Building a greenfield stack that specifically avoided EBS and stayed up when everyone else was down during another mass EBS failure felt marvelous. It was an obvious avoidable hazard.

It doesn't mean "avoid EBS" is good advice for the decade to follow, but accepting failure fatalistically doesn't feel right either.