Yeah it's a real hassle to learn all that stuff. Fortunately everyone here reads Hacker News so we already know that AWS has downtime that can affect whole reg

Yeah it's a real hassle to learn all that stuff. Fortunately everyone here reads Hacker News so we already know that AWS has downtime that can affect whole regions, and that platforms like Heroku don't yet provide resiliency that spans regions. So if you don't really care about occasional downtime, you don't need to bother learning all that hard stuff. It's perfectly ok with me if your service is down.