In 2011 there was some kind of big outage at some major AWS US-east pop

In 2011 there was some kind of big outage at some major AWS US-east pop. I started a job at a company (very boring B2C startup) which had taken the lesson from that, that "cloud anything is dangerous." They went and bought a bunch of literal servers and installed them in a datacenter, 90 miles away from our offices, and this is where all our applications ran for the remainder of that company's existence (about 6 more years). For the whole time I was at that company, we had somewhat more, and usually more lengthy, outages than the average startup. The only difference is that when some piece of networking gear took a crap, or a disk failed, or whatever, our guys had to diagnose and resolve it (Their karma, I guess, since this was their idea). Anyway, I do think it would be good if at least so-calld 'tech companies' had a little less obsession to outsource everything -- even easy things -- to AWS, GCP, and Azure. I feel that way mainly for cost reasons as many of these services are wildly overpriced. …