That number of 9s might be a thing for the lower layer cloud services like on AWS or Azure or GCP. Even then, that us-east-1 outage was an accidental power move

That number of 9s might be a thing for the lower layer cloud services like on AWS or Azure or GCP. Even then, that us-east-1 outage was an accidental power move. It established that many are best off putting all their stuff on us-east-1 cause then their outages only happen at the best possible times, whereas multi-region complexity might cause its own kind of outage when nobody else is down.