This blog post is hilarious.

A region in AWS speak is already multiple supposedly independent data centers (in AWS terms: AZ (availability zone)).

So if an entire region fails, that's four or so data centers which all go down at the same time.

So how many companies on bare metal have four data centers and experience this kind of catastrophic downtimes? Add to that, how many of these companies operate completely in the dark about which data center is actually which?

These blog posts are annoying because it seems like these people have never done anything they suggest themselves.

Yes, the cloud lets you setup a fully configured instance within minutes. But at which expense? Mostly intransparency about what the entire stack and what is going on?

Food for thoughts.