[duncanfwalker]

I think it depends on the API - we do this with AWS Secret Managers. I haven't seen it fail but if did it would only effect new instances coming into service so I think we'd have to be pretty unlucky for it to have a noticeable impact.

[latchkey]

This wasn’t an AWS Secrets Manager example, and yes, there’s a guy named Murphy who wrote a law about this kind of thing.

[duncanfwalker]

It's true that anything that can go wrong will go wrong but I wouldn't use that as a maxim to direct designs - risk is one trade-off and it's significance varies.