Correct. Probabilistically, I'd say it's the same as long as that earthquake is under the ocean. Yeah you'll get 30M tsunami with a 9.0mag earthquake (most like

Correct. Probabilistically, I'd say it's the same as long as that earthquake is under the ocean. Yeah you'll get 30M tsunami with a 9.0mag earthquake (most likely, I'm no geologist). So yeah, AWS going down should be something _every_ company that runs its services on AWS including providers like Heroku should take into account as far as their architecture goes. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. You _will_ have downtime. Period.