AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1
Just wanted to add a quick note before we get the usual deluge of "you should be running in multiple AZs and regions" posts: These outages are relatively rare and your best decision might just be to accept the tiny amount of downtime and keep your app simple and inexpensive to run.<p>I of course don't know the tradeoffs involved in running your system, but I know for a lot of my situations the simplicity of single AZ with a straightforward failover option is usually the right tradeoff.