[abadpoli]

If us-east-1 ever suffered a “FULL” data loss, it would be a company-ending event for so many companies that it would practically end society as we know it.

OVH’s failure was a single building. That’s the problem with a lot of server hosters - even Google has their availability zones all co-located in the same building, so a physical event like a fire could take down an entire region. AWS has AZs in physically separate locations, each with 1+ separate DCs.

[t0mas88]

Is the any GCP documentation on that? Sounds like a far bigger risk going with GCP than AWS if all zones in a region are in the same building.