[gwbas1c]

> What if we had a startup that virtualizes a layer on top of these such that we AWS has an outage, you lose 1/3rd of your operating capacity, when Azure has an outage you lose 1/3rd of your operating capacity.

And then when your startup goes down we lose 3/3rds of our operating capacity!

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There are certain kinds of errors and failures that it's not worth protecting against, because the costs (and consequences) are more than just accepting that things fail from time to time.

It's easy to forget that services used to go down all the time in the 1990s and early 2000s. In this case, we still have super-impressive resiliency with modern cloud hosting.

IMO: The best way to improve the situation is for the cloud hosts to take their lessons learned and improve themselves, and for us (their customers) to vote with our feet if/when a cloud provider has problems.