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Am I the only one who feels like the author missed the mark?

The blog post is supposed to be about "keeping your website up through catastrophic events" and the dominant theme seems to be "invest more heavily on Amazon." IMHO, the exact opposite needs to happen.

Sure, I understand that being in multiple regions means you supposedly have very autonomous deployments (to include Amazon's API endpoints), but nobody can prove to us that each zone or even each region are totally separate.

I'm not saying that Amazon is being dishonest about their engineering - I simply believe that by being 100% reliant on a single vendor you fail to mitigate any systemic risk that is present. That risk can be technical risk or business risk, as engineering at this level isn't strictly a technical profession.