AWS doesn’t give higher uptime in my experience, but that’s not the point. The point is that if everyone is down once a year, you as the CTO don’t get blamed. I

AWS doesn’t give higher uptime in my experience, but that’s not the point. The point is that if everyone is down once a year, you as the CTO don’t get blamed. If you are down just once in 10 years but everyone else is up you do get blamed.