because... EU clouds don't break?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749178

Nah, because European services should not be affected by a failure in the US. Whatever systems they have running in us-east-1 should have failovers in all major regions. Today it's an outage in Virginia, tomorrow it could be an attack on undersea cables (which I'm confident are mined and ready to be severed at this point by multiple parties).

Mined? My understanding is that they are maintained too regularly for that, or we would know.

Also, lots of the bad guy boogeymen countries have legal and technical methods to do this without property damage. Just blackhole a bunch of routes.

No, it's called "diversification". Applies both to stock/currency/investments as well as enything else :P

ok but many providers already have regions in the EU

Well, except for a lot of business leaders saying that they don't care if it's Amazon that goes down, because "the rest of the internet will be down too."

Dumb argument imho, but that's how many of them think ime.