AWS is fine, as long as you don't try to treat it like a cheap colocated server. Build for redundancy, replace resources when they fail (rather than necessaril

AWS is fine, as long as you don't try to treat it like a cheap colocated server. Build for redundancy, replace resources when they fail (rather than necessarily trying to fix them), and you're good. AWS has some learning curve in the form of its ACLs, APIs, and how the pieces fit together, but the result is that you have excellent fine-grained control over your stack. You can outsource that knowledge to a platform provider, but you're gonna pay for it. Rackspace won't even sell you cloud hosting without a service contract.