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because the chances that MS's DC is going to blow up is extremely small
And yet, it is what this thread is about ... exactly that happening.
Except that it's Amazon, not MS.
MS was US Central this year or late last.
MS was the world when their authentication mechanism went down I think it was a year or so ago.
MS was Europe offline with VMs hosed and a recovery needed. Weeks.
MS has had plenty of trials by fire.
Not one of the hyper-scale folks are trouble free.
Most of our clients have had 100% up-time across solution sets for years and in some cases we're coming up on decades. Cloud can't touch that. Period.
And no updates correct right? to have 100 % Up-time you must never do updates.
In a cluster setting, not too difficult. In this case, 100% up-time is defined as nary a user impacted by any service or app being offline when needed.
So, point of clarification conceded.
Yes, I know you could do a cluster and that's how Cloud Providers give you that 99.9% up-time or SLA. Right now it is hard to believe no one has any issues, if cloud providers in a large scale have issues then smaller companies do have them as well. That said, no cloud provider provides any backups for anyone unless you set them up either through their offering or your company.