It's stuff like this that makes me wonder how big the gap is between disaster planning in large scale computer infrastructure (like AWS), and what will happen w

It's stuff like this that makes me wonder how big the gap is between disaster planning in large scale computer infrastructure (like AWS), and what will happen when there is an actual major disaster like a large earthquake. The amount of confidence people have in their ability to plan for contingencies seems to go down in proportion to their exposure to hardware. Complex systems are endlessly inventive when it comes to finding ways to fail.