> Being the one shop still online when 99% of the clouds go down is probably not a realistic competitive advantage for your business. It depends. If you're jus

> Being the one shop still online when 99% of the clouds go down is probably not a realistic competitive advantage for your business. It depends. If you're just another Etsy store, or a SaaS that integrates with other SaaSes, then yes. The entire internet will be down if AWS is down and nobody will blame you. But if your customers are using your app on a job site and they can't work without it, you'll lose everyone if you have a single outage of even a few minutes. I have a client in this space and they've handled this by making the app work offline and by pushing a few high-value things outside of AWS to survive an outage of their main stack, such as access grants, and the app can start to use MMS to send its data by including a token with the photo and job info and then this gets synced later by actually adding the token receiver to a user list as if you'd added them through the main UI.