There's a really good thread on LI - about the Google GCP "water intrusion" outage that brought down the whole region... and why a fire in a single datacenter could wipe out a whole region on google but wouldn't on AWS - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gergelyorosz_the-definition-of-what-region-in-the-clou[…]927856902144-AnDE?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop