[mbesto]

> Amazon, Google or Microsoft

Just to be clear, if you're using AWS, GCP, and Azure to host your own applications, you're at your own peril to managed disaster & recovery. Those companies make doing that much easier than managing your own DC and yes the reliability is going to be better than DIY (but still never zero). I think you mean more towards SaaS applications or anything that "phones home" data to back it up, right?

We're going to start seeing more business continuity audits of SaaS players, akin to a BBB rating for the company's ability to maintain service levels. I thought I came across a website that actually has started doing this, but I can't recall which it was.

[tgtweak]

I think it's more about shifting blame than actually providing more reliable services. I regularly see s3 throw an error when reading and writing tens of thousands of files (spark w/parquet). It's not that it's MORE reliable (although it is very reliable), it's just that when it isn't it's somebody else's problem and responsibility to fix it.