Here is an article - with a link to the formal AWS after Action Report - about the outage last week which took down a bunch of services in the process. They were trying to expand capacity in their Kinesis cluster, and sharding got them. https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-heres-what-caused-major-aws-outage-last... I've put this on the main list because I know it has two or three times the subscriber count of -discussion, but I do recommend that we continue conversation about this, if there should be any, on the -discussion list. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.