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by grey-area 4512 days ago
You should have offsite backups anyway, no matter what service you're using, and a quick way to deploy to other providers if whatever host/datacenter you're using dies. That applies no matter what sort of host you use really, which I think is what the OP tried to say - not that self-hosting is bullet-proof, but that AWS is not bullet-proof either.

AWS outages in one zone do sometimes affect other zones too, so it is not disaster proof:

http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-web-services-the-hidden-bugs-tha...