[lomnakkus]

> In reality, even the most cloudy of cloud providers will run into this problem at some point.

Actually, wasn't this[0] what did happen several years ago when Amazon Ireland went down for days on end?[1]

[0] TL;DR: Cascading effects of power outage.

[1] http://readwrite.com/2011/08/08/amazons-ireland-services-sti... (didn't read the article, it was just high in the google search results)