Ah, the cloud. That wondrous digital Nirvana where your data frolics happily on someone else's computers while you sacrifice goats to the technology gods in the hopes that everything keeps working as intended. If you're a sysadmin type blessed (or more likely cursed) with the task of managing AWS resources you've no doubt experienced the white-knuckle thrill that comes when your boss innocently asks, "Hey, is everything up in the cloud okay?" and you somehow manage to blurt out the affirmativ...
