Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2
Any reason why this isn't automatic? From the "Recover your instance" docs:  Examples of problems that cause system status checks to
  fail include:

   * Loss of network connectivity
   * Loss of system power
   * Software issues on the physical host
   * Hardware issues on the physical host

All of these are on the physical host, which end users cannot control. So if AWS has an issue that kills your VM, if you don't have this setup then your instance is effectively dead?