of course EC2 has worse availability, but it has many other benefits. The question is whether those benefits are a good trade-off for you. When you say "staff

of course EC2 has worse availability, but it has many other benefits. The question is whether those benefits are a good trade-off for you. When you say "staff who have a deep understanding", I'm not sure what you mean. Did they pick the RAID controllers? The UPS?