if you need durability in the cloud you just pick any object storage service from the 3 bigs, and a db with multiple deployment with automatic replication and m

if you need durability in the cloud you just pick any object storage service from the 3 bigs, and a db with multiple deployment with automatic replication and managed failover. getting the equivalent reliability with irons is a lot more expensive than renting "two dedicated servers" - now you might be fine with one server and a backup solution, and that's fair. but a sysad to create all that, even on a short contract for the initial setup and no maintenance, is going to go well beyond the cloud price difference, especially if there's a database in the mix and you care about that data.