>> For folks who go in on managed services because self-hosted has the danger of an outage Seems like an overly simplistic and narrow view of the tradeoffs. Th

>> For folks who go in on managed services because self-hosted has the danger of an outage Seems like an overly simplistic and narrow view of the tradeoffs. The mainstream cloud services providers operate at very high levels of availability, but they nonetheless still have the "danger of an outage." There are many reasons why managed infrastructure may make sense for an organization, from ease of scaling to the completeness of the available solution space and cost efficiencies, but "absolutely avoiding any chance of downtime" isn't one of them.