Id rather think its a failure in planning.From AWSs playbook the conventional wisdom is that things fail all the time and you have to plan for these eventualiti

Id rather think its a failure in planning.From AWSs playbook the conventional wisdom is that things fail all the time and you have to plan for these eventualities.See the Netflix models and Googles multihoming approach to spreading the service offering.Its always going to be the case that a cloud provider can fall over however if you are simultaneously running on different providers , all you have to worry about is the speed of rerouting traffic to your still operational site.Short of the entire internet keeling over from a backhoe incident you should be sitting pretty.