[xd]

Well I guess the whole essence of HN is now lost... no room for some "random" startup dude to do anything that can be trusted.

[verletx64]

I think you can concede that if we're talking a five nines foot race, you're unlikely to beat out AWS etc.

[zzzcpan]

Five nines means you can't rely on a single infrastructure provider for anything ever and it doesn't actually matter whether you use AWS at all.