> Anything in the same physical location could be affected by earthquakes, fires [1], power cuts, Internet connections going offline, etc. It's worth noting di

> Anything in the same physical location could be affected by earthquakes, fires [1], power cuts, Internet connections going offline, etc. It's worth noting different AZs within the same region are supposedly architected to have their own redundant power and Internet connectivity. AFAIK a single fire shouldn't take out more than one, either. If a region-wide outage is caused by any of those things, it's because something else isn't working as expected. And this region has had region-wide issues before. Still, boiling cloud computing down to "somebody else's computer" is an oversimplification I see too often from cynical techies. It's like calling a restaurant "somebody else's kitchen." Yeah, it is. But it's missing the point to frame it that way.