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by simonebrunozzi 3963 days ago
Former AWS employee here. I disagree. Amazon S3 is way more "complex" than you think. This is a talk I gave years ago, I guess most of the principles are still valid today: https://vimeo.com/7330740 In most cases, large cloud infrastructures have a higher uptime than a dedicated one. I said "most", because if your IT is particularly good and well funded, then their uptime might be better.