[withinboredom]

On my first day ever in production on AWS, we had an entire 9 hours of downtime[1]... so maybe I'm a bit biased, especially because we had another one not too long after that one[2] on Christmas freaking Eve. Prior to moving to AWS, resolution timelines were able to be passed to stakeholders within minutes of discovering the issue. After moving to AWS, we played darts and looked like fools because there was nothing we could do while the company hemorrhaged money.

The cloud is much more mature as is dev-ops in general, these days, but major outages still happen. If you run your own cloud, you'll still have major outages. You can't really escape them.

If you have the expertise or can get the expertise, to do it in-house, you should do it. Just look to the US and its inability to build an in-expensive rocket, or even just manufacture goods. They outsourced everything (basically) to the point where they are reliant on the rest of the world for basic necessities.

You gotta think long-term, not short-term.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/message/680587/