> Pointing at a service with 99.99% uptime and claim the outages as a reason to go elsewhere? Host it yourself and hit that same uptime target. I'll be impresse

> Pointing at a service with 99.99% uptime and claim the outages as a reason to go elsewhere? Host it yourself and hit that same uptime target. I'll be impressed. Well, according to pingdom I hit 99.98% uptime with the dozen-or-so cheap little DO boxes I run for my firm's infrastructure. That's playing the dual roles of sole developer and sole support on those systems. My data pipeline collects records from hundreds of deployments worldwide, through all manner of diverse corporate IT environments. It really isn't that hard. I'll agree with your points on frictional unemployment when the thing displacing them represents actual forward progress. AWS is a land grab, not progress.