The document discusses how to handle cloud failures when using Amazon AWS. It recommends: 1) Designing infrastructure to be redundant across multiple availability zones and regions to prevent outages from single failures. 2) Decoupling applications so that they are stateless and can degrade gracefully or auto-recover from failures. 3) Automating infrastructure, monitoring, scaling and recovery processes to minimize downtime from failures. 4) Continuously testing infrastructure resilience through failure simulation tools like ChaosMonkey. 5) Weighing costs and risks of different redundancy and automation strategies for an organization's specific needs.