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Hardware is fairly reliable nowadays (whether you're hosting your own or using the cloud provider's) but failure still happens.
The bonus that you get by using a cloud provider is that you get API machinery and tooling to automatically handling most failures.
The malus is that depending on your level of paranoia (eg: architecting for multi-region) redundancy will get very expensive very soon.
But in the end... meh.
Despite what "evangelists" or "detractors" will say, there's no free lunch.
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Hardware is fairly reliable nowadays (whether you're hosting your own or using the cloud provider's) but failure still happens.
The bonus that you get by using a cloud provider is that you get API machinery and tooling to automatically handling most failures.
The malus is that depending on your level of paranoia (eg: architecting for multi-region) redundancy will get very expensive very soon.
But in the end... meh.
Despite what "evangelists" or "detractors" will say, there's no free lunch.