That sort of thing already exists, as availability zones. Things like EC2 instances live in us-east-1a, us-east-1b, etc, which are comprised of separate data centers. In theory that should provide resilience to even a large-scale outage, but evidently that's not foolproof.
The reason why they let you be very precise with how you provision servers is because some applications require that servers be physically close together, especially high bandwidth stuff.
Why do they get a choice in a specific server? Sure they could specify us-east, but why let them pick us-east-1 specifically?
That sort of thing already exists, as availability zones. Things like EC2 instances live in us-east-1a, us-east-1b, etc, which are comprised of separate data centers. In theory that should provide resilience to even a large-scale outage, but evidently that's not foolproof.
The reason why they let you be very precise with how you provision servers is because some applications require that servers be physically close together, especially high bandwidth stuff.
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