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One region isn't going to be effected by fire. And AWS have dozens of regions. They're even managed as separate units by separate people. You'll notice there's

by kondro 9y ago

One region isn't going to be effected by fire. And AWS have dozens of regions. They're even managed as separate units by separate people. You'll notice there's never been a large, multi-region outage of AWS.

cjsuk 9y ago
Yet. Some of the traditional apps we host are vulnerable hypervisor failure be that rack, DC or region.
- kondro 9y ago
  Hardware always fails. That's why AWS has so many availability zones, regions and services that let you take easy advantage of HA across them.