> That said, I have fewer outages on my machines than AWS has on theirs.
It gets even better (or worse, depending on your view point) if you factor in services you're dependent on. In my career I probably had more outages due external partners running their stuff on AWS than I ever did because our own servers where down.
That's not to say that AWS is bad, but it take a very skilled administrator to do AWS correct, and it costs a lot of money to get the required redundancy. The whole "I can't vacuum because US-EAST-1 is down" is because someone didn't want to pay what it costs to do redundancy in AWS.
It gets even better (or worse, depending on your view point) if you factor in services you're dependent on. In my career I probably had more outages due external partners running their stuff on AWS than I ever did because our own servers where down.
That's not to say that AWS is bad, but it take a very skilled administrator to do AWS correct, and it costs a lot of money to get the required redundancy. The whole "I can't vacuum because US-EAST-1 is down" is because someone didn't want to pay what it costs to do redundancy in AWS.