> For example, during the AWS outage, my company was in us-east-1, and we never had any issues, because we didn't depend on calling AWS APIs to continue operati

> For example, during the AWS outage, my company was in us-east-1, and we never had any issues, because we didn't depend on calling AWS APIs to continue operating. Things already running continue to run. Naïve. If the network infrastructure is down, your computer goes down, it just happens that the functionality that went down you didn’t rely on. You could not rely on any functions at all by turning the server off, too.