[philjohn]

I suppose it depends on data centre locations. Data centre on the west coast? I'd be wary, mostly central and east coast? Less of a worry.

[DrBazza]

From a cloud perspective, I'd hope everything just carries on.

But from a 'shareholder' perspective I expect the stock markets will go silly at the first sign of shaking.

[sitkack]

All the clouds will go down at the same time. The control planes for all them are heavily managed in Seattle.

[washbrain]

AWS has lots of engineers in Seattle, but control plane is distributed. I'd personally expect a long delay in getting any fixes to things, but that many sites would be just fine.

[bee_rider]

For some reason I had the impression that us-east-1 was kind of the flagship for AWS, although actually typing that out seems quite silly.

[washbrain]

It is the flagship.

[sitkack]

I think you overestimate how resilient any of the cloud providers are to a massive gray failure. Lots of west coast infrastructure will flap. The survivors will have other priorities. I am going to revise my statement, I predict! a partial or nearly complete failure of the internet across multiple continents when this earthquake goes off.

[DrBazza]

But are all the buildings on the MS campus, for example, "built to code"? (that's the US phrase isn't it). Do we reasonably expect most, let's say, post-80s buildings to survive a magnitude 9+?

[spookthesunset]

Most of the buildings that are more than a few stories tall on that campus are definitely build to modern-ish code. They’ve been slowing replacing the original stack with new office buildings.

[digitallyfree]

Staffing would play a major role as well with their HQs on the west coast.