Hi Kip,

Having worked on hybrid cloud @ Cisco, I certainly appreciate the value of such model. That said, the issue on S3 doesn't necessarily serve as justification for hybrid cloud, neither does many public cloud outages. If anything it boasts the argument for fault tolerance across not just zones but also regions, which was available but only for subset of apps. It may also further advocate the need for additional safeguards against commands with far reaching scope!

regards,

-Hicham.