[mrkurt]

Yes. In my experience, it's substantial. 200 servers in colo == maybe 1 failure every 6 months. 200 EC2 instances, one per month.

These are different things, though. If you're using AWS, you would build to account for this.

[themitigating]

your personal experience has no value when discussing reliability as a whole

[mrkurt]

thank you.

[tptacek]

Your personal experience is no match for the awesome power of AXIOMS.