A multi-datacenter setup, which, based on their stack, could just be jobs running on top of a distributed key-value store (and for the uninitiated, this is effectively what Kubernetes is) could greatly alleviate such concerns.
> Availability zones are unique physical locations within an Azure region. Each zone is made up of one or more datacenters with independent power, cooling, and networking. The physical separation of availability zones within a region limits the impact to applications and data from zone failures, such as power and cooling failures, large-scale flooding, major storms and superstorms, and other events that could disrupt site access, safe passage, extended utilities uptime, and the availability of resources.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/high-av...
And it's virtually impossible to make, say, a Singapore region resilient to natural disasters
But yes, agreed.