[zbettenbuk]

All these "big clouds" are a risk when it comes to global outages. Heroku, Cloudflare, AWS... etc. Using indy or smaller developer focussed clouds can mitigate this problem, but those come with other risks for sure. I think every tech decision makers (CTOs, architects, lead engineers...) need to know at least some of these tools and give them a try to keep a list of plan-Bs at hand.

[bombcar]

In general for business-class stuff, you're better off going with the biggest names (AWS, Cloudflare) and trying to have your own backups for when those fail.

That way, if the backup works, yay (maybe even covers you shotgunning your own foot now and then), if it fails, eh, everyone is offline because AWS is down so the blame game won't be that harsh.

[glenngillen]

What leads you to believe indy or smaller clouds are less prone to outages?