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.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.