[vegasje]

It sounds to me like you have tied your life so closely to tech that you are unable to see the forest through the trees. If some kind of civil/global event occurs that takes out AWS, then you can bet that public works across the country would be in the same, if not worse, shape. There is no sector that would be untouched by civil war. We are at the same time both well distributed and irrationally continental.

[throwaway6532]

Well, I don't live in the US, so I'm well insulated from any disruption that would happen on the ground, but I'm a software engineer, so naturally my income is tied to tech much of which domestically and internationally relies on cloud providers being operational. What I'm worried about is the potential for global contagion.

I can't help but think that despite all the redundancy and resilience built into the cloud through multiple AZs and globally distributed regional datacenters it was all architected on the assumption that it would be physically safe and that there lurks a failure mode somewhere where a particular SPOF exists that renders the rest of all that redundancy useless.

[gregjor]

Then you should worry less about unlikely things you can’t control, like civil war in the US, and worry more about why whatever country you live in doesn’t have redundant cloud services that could work if the US got shut down.

[gaws]

> What I'm worried about is the potential for global contagion.

A lot of stable internet architecture is based in the United States. If anything happens, there will be rippling effects worldwide. You won't be immune.