Kind of like the "no one ever got fired for recommending IBM", if you have significant downtime on Linode or Hetzner, people are going to ask "why weren't you o

Kind of like the "no one ever got fired for recommending IBM", if you have significant downtime on Linode or Hetzner, people are going to ask "why weren't you on AWS?!". If you're on AWS and AWS goes down, you get to skip that question entirely. You were already using the logical choice, you don't need to defend anything. If Netflix can go down when AWS goes down, so can your app. AWS outages impact so much of the Internet that people will just accept it. Of course here I am with a site on Heroku which uses AWS... impacted by the AWS outage... fielding questions about why I didn't pick AWS if Heroku suffers outages like this. Can't please them all.