Obviously YMMV depending on your use-case (not too many things can tolerate a 1.5 day downtime), but yes, in general people don't look at lower-level infrastruc

Obviously YMMV depending on your use-case (not too many things can tolerate a 1.5 day downtime), but yes, in general people don't look at lower-level infrastructure enough. Even at the lower end of the scale, I'd wager 90% of webapps can run fine on a Linux VPS (DigitalOcean, etc.) and the owner can save quite a bit of money compared to a full-stack deployment on a public cloud, with users never noticing a difference in uptime or performance. On the higher end, at places with $20k/mo or above in cloud spend should at least do a cost/benefit analysis on running their baseline compute on dedicated servers and whatnot, and branching out to the cloud for bursts.