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To this day I still do not get why you would use AWS, the entire user experience is clunky and the pricing is crazy for what you get. Azure isn't much better with regards to downtime, but if you want something more than just a VPS I'd choose it any day over AWS for the significantly better UX in both the admin console and the command line tools + SDK.

Ultimately though, even with Azure or AWS you're going to need people knowledgeable enough to administer your compute instances anyway, so why not just run your full stack on a bunch of VM's from DigitalOcean or Linode or rent a couple dedicated servers and throw oVirt on them; saving yourself a significant chunk of money at the same time.