See, this makes me uneasy. The best and brightest work very hard to avoid memory errors in their C codebases then, when errors occur anyway, console themselves that no-one could have done any better. The less brilliant look into more automatic forms of memory management. AT&T hired the best and brightest to make heroic efforts so that the old circuit-switched Bell system could achieve mediocre reliability. I certainly hope that the best and brightest at AWS aren't intending to tackle their enormous control-backplane SPOF by assiduously patching every bug that turns up in its behaviour.