Data in one geographic region is not always safe, period. Cloud aside, if you store data on Baremetal in one location (or boxes of tapes) and that location bur

Data in one geographic region is not always safe, period. Cloud aside, if you store data on Baremetal in one location (or boxes of tapes) and that location burns down, it's gone. If you have mission-critical data to store, it should be spread between regions, if not cloud-providers.