Hardware failures on server hardware at the scale of 1 machine are far less common than us-east-1 downtime
The typical failure mode of AWS is much better. Half the internet is down, so you just point at that and wait for everything to come back, and your instances just keep running. If you have one server you have to do the troubleshooting and recovery work. But you need to run more than one machine to get fewer nines of reliability
> Hardware failures on server hardware at the scale of 1 machine are far less common than us-east-1 downtime
A couple pieces of gentle pushback here:
- if you chose a hyperscaler, you should use their (often one-click) geographic redundancy & failover.
- All of the hyperscalers have more than one AZ. Specifically, there's no reason for any AWS customer to locate all/any* of their resources in us-east-1. (I actively recommend against this.)
* - Except for the small number of services only available in us-east-1, obviously.
Hetzner also offers more than one datacenter, which you should obviously use if you want geographic redundancy. But the comment I was replying was saying "Even dropping something on a single EC2 node in us-east-1", and for a single EC2 node in us-east-1 none of the things you are mentioning are possible without violating the premise
The typical failure mode of AWS is much better. Half the internet is down, so you just point at that and wait for everything to come back, and your instances just keep running. If you have one server you have to do the troubleshooting and recovery work. But you need to run more than one machine to get fewer nines of reliability