&gt;  In reality, even the most cloudy of cloud providers will run into this problem at some point.<p>Actually, wasn&#x27;t this[0] what <i>did</i> happen several years ago when Amazon Ireland went down for days on end?[1]<p>[0] TL;DR: Cascading effects of power outage.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;readwrite.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;08&#x2F;amazons-ireland-services-still" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;readwrite.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;08&#x2F;amazons-ireland-services-sti...</a> (didn&#x27;t read the article, it was just high in the google search results)