That's their secret, Cap. You've always had to deal with multiple vendors when there's an outage. Vercel has never made it a secret that they're standing on the shoulders of Tier 1 Cloud giants for their hosting backend.
To me, the storage announcement + this blog really helped contextualize where Vercel sits. And I really like this approach. It’s what I’d want to build on. I love the partnerships with cos out of their core expertise like Neon, and existing integrations with supabase, planetscale, etc
I think its a fair assumption that any massive AWS or similar scale company infra outage is going to knock out a good portion of your SaaS and multiple parts of the web