My mother-in-law fell for a love scam last year. Luckily we caught it early and no money was lost, but I was surprised how difficult it was to convince her it was a scam despite the obvious signs and family and friends all telling her it was. The scammer claimed to be the actor Jack Wagner (popular on Hallmark channel and soap operas). Out of desperation we looked him up on cameo and paid him for a video message telling her it wasn't him texting her, and that finally snapped her out of it.
Ah, good to know, I hadn't seen that V2 update. Looks like a min 5m inactivity to auto-pause (i.e., scale to 0), and any connection attempt (valid or not) resumes the DB.
Yes, we've been testing volume attachments every 5m since start of the year, and have experienced 100-150 attachment failures per volume type in that time frame during multiple events (most recently last week):
Another interesting bit, is last March AWS changed something in the control plane which both triggered a multi-day LSE, and ultimately increased attachment times from 2-3s to 10-20s (also visible in the graphs).
Lambda create-function control plane operations are still failing with InternalError for us - other services have recovered (Lambda, SNS, SQS, EFS, EBS, and CloudFront). Cloud availability is the subject of my CS grad research, I wrote a quick post summarizing the event timeline and blast radius as I've observed it from testing in multiple AWS test accounts: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/analyzing-aws-us-east-1-outag...