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by gte910h 5531 days ago
I see EC2 as a good piece of infrastructre to have as part of a failover plan. But should it be even 1/3 the providers for servers? No.
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Triply redundant hosting providers is really setting the bar high. Lot of 20/20 hindsight being put into play the last few days!

In my experience, small companies typically have one hosting provider, off-site backups, and the probable but untested ability to bring up a fresh installation in a few hours. That's both common in the real world and good enough for most situations. It would get you through an outage like this.

It's a medical device. It's not a imposition in that case.