It is statistically far more likely that your cloud service will go down for hours or days, and you will have no recourse and will just have to wait till AWS manage to resolve it.

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n4r9 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I suspect that this is really about liability. When AWS goes down you can just throw up your hands, everyone's in the same boat. If your own server goes down you worry that your customers doubt your competence.

	▲	whstl a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		So it finally has come to this. AWS is not cheap, it's not fast, it's complicated, is's unpredictable, it requires very expensive employees to run, and now is not even reliable anymore. But people use it because you can blame them.

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aurareturn 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

The difference is that if AWS goes down, I know for a fact that it'll be back up without me doing anything.

If my own dedicated server goes down, I'm going to need to call my admin at 3am 10 times just to wake him up.