  We find new and compelling evidence for the meta-stability of SUSY-breaking
states in holographic backgrounds whose consistency has been the source of
ongoing disagreements in the literature. As a concrete example, we analyse
anti-D3 branes at the tip of the Klebanov-Strassler (KS) throat. Using the
blackfold formalism we examine how temperature affects the conjectured
meta-stable state and determine whether and how the existing extremal results
generalize when going beyond extremality. In the extremal limit we exactly
recover the results of Kachru, Pearson and Verlinde (KPV), in a regime of
parameter space that was previously inaccesible. Away from extremality we
uncover a meta-stable black NS5 state that disappears near a geometric
transition where black anti-D3 branes and black NS5 branes become
indistinguishable. This is remarkably consistent with complementary earlier
results based on the analysis of regularity conditions of backreacted
solutions. We therefore provide highly non-trivial evidence for the
meta-stability of anti-branes in non-compact throat geometries since we find a
consistent picture over different regimes in parameter space.
