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When a Cloud Region Fails: Rethinking High Availability in a Geopolitically Unstable World
Cloud high availability can no longer assume regions are safe, independent failure domains: sanctions, data localization laws, conflict zones, and submarine cable cuts can take out an entire region or make it noncompliant. Treat region-level disruption as a first-class risk, with multi-region, jurisdiction-aware data placement, control-plane separation, and dependency audits. The added cost and complexity should be justified with Annual Loss Expectancy modeling rather than assumed.
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