If the decision appears reasonable in the context of your industry, you won't be blamed. Phrases like "Nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco/IBM/etc." are tos

If the decision appears reasonable in the context of your industry, you won't be blamed. Phrases like "Nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco/IBM/etc." are tossed around fairly often. If you chose the expensive, gold standard for your use-case and got burned anyway, odds are it won't be held against you. Of course there are exceptions to that. If AWS going down results in loss of life -- you should take measures to avoid it. If the stakes are a day of lost work, the cure might be worse than the disease from a cost perspective.