> > A redundant solution doesn't have a perfect uptime just because it's redundant, in fact sometimes it might have even less uptime because of failures in the

> > A redundant solution doesn't have a perfect uptime just because it's redundant, in fact sometimes it might have even less uptime because of failures in the redundancy mechanism > I'm fairly sure that google does a better job keeping cloud spanner and cloud run working, and their redundancy mechanisms working, than whoever runs your single linux box will do. You'd be surprised - the major cloud providers have outages all the time. Google in particular will have some random backing service firing 502's seemingly randomly while their dashboards say "all good".