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by dilyevsky 1931 days ago
Just to note - only google does live migration (with ~100ms blackout) with others you will take some downtime anyway (assuming the remaining zones even have enough capacity to fit everyone)
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Google never migrates to a different physical location, so it wouldn't actually protect against a whole class of issues (major flooding, war, employee strike, etc)
Zones are often in separate locations but only within a few miles so yeah. Also i think they won’t even migrate inter-zone so there’s that