This is not intended to be silverbacking, condescending, anything like that at all: Have you ever tried to provide uptime with physical equipment?<p>I have been able to provide the same level of uptime over ~15 years (in various environments, ranging from corporate america to the department of energy to startups) with physical servers as I have with AWS. The initial capital expenditure outlay is higher, but its cheaper over 1-3 years than AWS.<p>AWS isn&#x27;t the only solution out there. Its great for proof of concept, its great when you don&#x27;t know how much capacity you&#x27;re going to need, but it is very expensive comparatively.