The expectation with these services you mentioned, however, is reliability. The implicit (and explicit) volatility of cloud hosting should change that expectat

The expectation with these services you mentioned, however, is reliability. The implicit (and explicit) volatility of cloud hosting should change that expectation with such services. "Non-issue" is an exaggeration because it was potentially a catastrophe. But this is sort of the way these services "work." Servers/droplets/instances are ephemeral and replaceable, and their underlying data is not guaranteed in a failure.