Not sure if I agree. Networked filesystems require a strong consistency model, which forces you to give up some reliability, as we can plainly see today. That d

Not sure if I agree. Networked filesystems require a strong consistency model, which forces you to give up some reliability, as we can plainly see today. That doesn't mean to say that strong consistency models are bad. They're easier and cheaper to work with. If your system is not so mission-critical or self-sufficient that spending the time, effort and money to develop a fault-tolerant, eventually consistent system (e.g., see Netflix) is worth doing, then relying on a network filesystem isn't such a bad option. Of course, when you do, you should realize that the reliability issues tend to be a lot more fundamental than which provider you use, the number of customers they have, or what buzzword people associate it with them.