[lingrino]

One interesting benefit of using such a large provider is that if a breach or bad behavior were to happen large portions of the internet would suffer, and you'll receive a much smaller portion of the blame. The S3 outage last year was terrible for my employer, but hardly anyone noticed because much more significant sites were similarly suffering.

[eeZah7Ux]

The usual "nobody get fired for $groupthink_based_behavior" creates systemic risk.

A level of diversity is necessary for resiliency and security.

This is true for biological systems, social organizations, complex technologies and of course software as well.