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Re:Netlify Status – build pipeline down for past 4 hours by lykr0n on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:21PM (#21420513)
The cloud doesn't go down- regions and services inside that region go down.

A region (or AZ for Amazon) is no more or less reliable then your run of the mill DC

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Re:Netlify Status – build pipeline down for past 4 hours by jgalt212 on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:53PM (#21420958)
True, but then the question is it cheaper to build your own redundancy or duplicate all/most infrastructure across multiple zones? Once that becomes the question, the cloud not longer looks so simple or cost effective.
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