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Live migration requires the VM to be alive. It doesn't help when a hardware failure takes out the whole machine, so people would still need to plan for that.

Yes, and that's the direction Amazon want you to be thinking in. They could throw engineering effort at reducing the likelihood of instances going away in this sort of scenario, but they've chosen not to.

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