One of the things that people tend to underestimate is datacenter outages. When an Amazon datacenter goes down it takes out many sites with it. We're working to

One of the things that people tend to underestimate is datacenter outages. When an Amazon datacenter goes down it takes out many sites with it. We're working toward a world where data is redundantly kept in many different datacenters/locations. In those almost-total failure cases, latency is better than no availability.