In practice, both hardware and software used in production is 10 times as reliable as it was 10 years ago. I’ve seen less downtime on the average Dell rack serv

In practice, both hardware and software used in production is 10 times as reliable as it was 10 years ago. I’ve seen less downtime on the average Dell rack server with RHEL than the average yearly AWS downtime. Additionally, running a managed DB involves a lot of upkeep as well, it’s just a different set of tasks.