I actually posted that Stack Overflow question and I don't think any of the answ...

		Narkov on Sept 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup gener... I actually posted that Stack Overflow question and I don't think any of the answers support my assumption and your statement that it reduces the chance of failure. The EBS volume will still fail but you can restore it from the higher reliability S3-backed EBS snapshot.