If you need global HA to the extent that you're worried about global VPC failure modes, you're going to have to spend a lot of effort to squeeze uptime to the max regardless of where you deploy.
Undersea cable failures are probably more likely than a google core networking failure.
In AWS a lot of "global" things are actually just hosted in us-east-1.
On the other hand, when they say something is in us-west-2 they mean it, so if another region has an outage your workloads aren't impacted unless your code is reaching out to that region.
Undersea cable failures are probably more likely than a google core networking failure.
In AWS a lot of "global" things are actually just hosted in us-east-1.