[Aurornis]

There are more failure modes for a region than “working perfectly” and “irreversibly destroyed”. Having cross-region backup leaves open the possibility of restoration of service or at least key data during an extended outage.

> then the country is probably under attack, and absolutely no one will give a shit that your SaaS product is dead.

Or there’s a severe natural disaster, or a flooded data center due to unforeseen conditions, or any number of things.

If your country is attacked, all business does not immediately halt. War is not an instantaneous phenomenon where an entire country becomes destroyed overnight. People continue living their lives as best they can because they still need to put food on the table and life must go on. I have a number of friends and past coworkers in Ukraine who can attest to how you continue doing your best and pick up the pieces and continue moving back toward normalcy.