While I'm sure users of the Amazon Cloud and the services that use them aren't particularly happy about this, severe weather happens (and more frequently with climate change), so downtime is a possibility.
And that's true whether you use the Amazon Cloud or host your own servers. Indeed, it's probably less likely with a cloud service.
There are reasons to self-host, but this kind of thing isn't one of them.
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Amazon Cloud Goes Down Friday Night, Taking Netflix, Instagram And Pinterest With It – Forbes
As of 11:21 PM EST Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia went down, due to severe thunder storms in the area. The Washington Post reports torrential rains,
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