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Of course, there are businesses where uptime is absolutely critical, though I'd argue a lot of those already operate their own hardware for that reason (and would benefit little from moving to the cloud) or already have a cloud-based, distributed (multi AZs or multi-cloud even) system in place.

But is this actually the case of most companies? The AWS outages always have major ripple effects across the internet, suggesting that a lot of companies don't actually do what is needed to guarantee uptime and manage to survive and succeed despite that.