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by theshrike79 212 days ago
When us-east-1 goes down, half the internet goes down with it.

Customers call and complain about downtime, I can just vaguely point at everything being on fire from Facebook to Instagram to online banking sites.

They get it.

When the self-hosted server fries itself, I'm on the hook for fixing it ASAP.