Wow, the Chaos Monkey keeps everyone honest. It is the ultimate environment that many enterprises are striving for, although many still struggle to understand the basics of high availability and where single points of failure still fester. I do sympathise with some of the folks hit by the Amazon EC2 outage, despite that fact that in an *ideal world* they could have avoided their fate. Sometimes the best learning happens by failing aka "fast failing" management fashion du jour. I'd think of the Chaos Monkey as the architecture that everyone should be building towards or aiming for. Only in the cloud could you even discuss an architecture like that. -Sean Hull My discussion of the Amazon outage: http://www.iheavy.com/2011/04/26/amazon-ec2-outage-failures-lessons-and-cloud-deployments/