So ... as a professional organization, why does OpsBeat continue to contract with such an amateur organization? You could scale up your own servers, round-robi

So ... as a professional organization, why does OpsBeat continue to contract with such an amateur organization? You could scale up your own servers, round-robin DNS (more for ELB), etc if you're not happy with their performance. Instead, a group of dedicated professionals updated a world-wide infrastructure in less than two days. If you were running your own systems would you have managed that? Yes, you would have known exactly when you were done but could you predict ahead of time when you'd be done? So, as engineers we make trade-offs and AWS is a pretty clear winner when you look at the TCO of having a scalable architecture. Once you've made that trade-off, the down-side is that you don't have the ultimate flexibility provided by a bare-metal host.