You can get closer to their nines by using less of their stuff - if you use every service aws offers to power a single app, you'll have markedly less 9's than i

You can get closer to their nines by using less of their stuff - if you use every service aws offers to power a single app, you'll have markedly less 9's than if you only use a few... The foundational services (VMs, dns, s3, etc) I've found to be more reliable than others (ebs).