You will still have to deal with outages (even if probably at a much lower rate). Just today I got a confirmation from AWS that the 1h outage that our production, multi-AZ RDS database suffered *three months ago* was due to an underlying failure in their storage subsystem. I didn't have to fix any SAN or fiber issue, true, but I lost hours puzzling and debugging things to understand why it failed, with no good answer (until today).

Let's be honest. It is much different than having to sit in the car in the middle of the night to change a hard drive in the server that just failed because of a power surge.

Gonna go the typical HN nitpicking on examples

> It is much different than having to sit in the car in the middle of the night to change a hard drive in the server that just failed because of a power surge.

Never ever had to go at night in a data center to replace a single disk failure, even in my DC days. Always the 1st working day after the disk failure, since they were redundant. Now, network gear upgrades during the nights, those I made a few and I'm happy they are history for me now. But even in a cloud world you have to do from time to time low-traffic time interventions.