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by specialp 4512 days ago
The reason why they make the news is due to the amount of people who did it wrong by hosting everything in US-EAST1 and not having the ability to deploy to another availability zone. Even data centers have outages that are much longer lasting. You do not hear about them as much because people that are large colo in multiple data centers and people that are small go down in smaller numbers.

Cloud computing is no different than anything else in computer hardware/enterprise. You need to have redundancy.