| There are at least 6 cloud providers I can name that I've used which run their own data centers with capabilities similar to AWSs core products (ec2, route53, s3, cloud watch, rdb) Ovh, scaleway, online.net, azure, gcp, aws That's one's I've used in production, I've heard of a dozen more including big names like HP and IBM, I assume they can match aws for the most part. ... That being said I agree multi tenant is the way to go for reliability. But I was pointing out that in this case even the simple solution of multi region on one provider was not implemented by those affected. ... As for running your own data center as a small company. I have done it, buying components building servers and all. Expenses and ISP issues aside, I can't imagine using in house without at least a few outages a year for anywhere near the price of hiring a DevOps person to build a MT solution for you. If you think you can you've either never tried doing it OR you are being severely underpaid for your job. Competent teams to build and run reliable in house infrastructure exist, and they can get you SLA similar to multi region AWS or GC (aka 100% over the last 5 years)... But the price tag has 7 to 8 figures in it. |