IME, while Google's network is really good (based on my experience w/ GCP at least), AWS cross-region traffic, for example, is still pretty reliable. Reliable

IME, while Google's network is really good (based on my experience w/ GCP at least), AWS cross-region traffic, for example, is still pretty reliable. Reliable enough, at least, that trading off perfect resiliency in the face of partitions is worth it to gain strong consistency semantics. IMO behavior in the face of partitions is a bit of a red herring. The latency tradeoffs required in a geo-replicated CP vs AP system is much more relevant.