alt Hacker NewsI also don’t understand this.
US-East-2 staying up isn’t my responsibility. If I need my own failover, I’m going to select a different region anyway.
And it’s not like US-East-2 isn’t already huge and growing. It’s effectively becoming another US-East-1.
> US-East-2 staying up isn’t my responsibility.
No, but you can be blamed if other things are up and yours is not. If everyone's stuff is down, it is just a natural disaster.