[mbesto]

No. And there's been a lot of talk recently about multi-provider being the right strategy to mitigate downtime, which IMHO is a farce peddled by expensive consultants. The parent comment is correct - this is why availability zones and regions have been established by each provider.

For the large majority of businesses investing in infrastructure-as-code far outweighs any crazy HA, redundant, multi-provider, whizzbang whatever setup you may have.

[dragonwriter]

> this is why availability zones and regions have been established by each provider.

But the degree of independence provided by AZs is not constant across providers, despite similar terminology.