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Also, you can just take two different amazon regions and hope they don't both go down at the same time.

For extra safety, and extra work, you could even take Azure as a backup if you're not locked in with AWS.

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forgive me repeating myself: AWS Zones are not truly independent of each other.

Global services such as route53, Cognito, the default cloud console and Cloudfront are managed out of US-East-1.

If us-east-1 is unavailable, as is commonly the case, and you depend on those systems, you are also down.

it does not matter if you're in timbuktu-1, you are dead in the water.

it is a myth that amazon availability zones are truly independent.

please stop blaming the victim, because you can do everything right and still fail if you are not aware of this; and you are perpetuating that unawareness.

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Of course that depends on what services you use and yes, even then there is some remaining correlation just because it is the same host.

> are not truly independent of each other

Indeed. They are even on the same planet!

> please stop blaming the victim

Excuse me?