> We can fit 3 exabytes of data inside a single server rack. You don’t need to distribute your data over 5 regions.<p>So the solution is to distrube to fewer racks or one rack?<p>Fewer racks - still a distributed system<p>one rack? - Single point of failure, hard to sell 99.99% uptime.<p>While I do agree using a less complicated system helps everyone, the idea of running in one physical location is not tenable for certain software (e.g. medical records)<p>I've architected, built and deployed three 99.99% systems using AWS, it really isn't that hard.