> Maybe the cloud has a higher uptime than your on-premise infrastructure (see the AWS, Azure outages).
Not even so sure about that. I've had a ton more downtime ("degraded" in AWS speak) with AWS than any self-hosted systems. And that's with more than half my career on self-hosted.
If a major disaster strikes, like the whole rack catching fire and melting everything, then it's true that AWS could recover quicker than self-hosted. But most problems are not of that sort.
Not even so sure about that. I've had a ton more downtime ("degraded" in AWS speak) with AWS than any self-hosted systems. And that's with more than half my career on self-hosted.
If a major disaster strikes, like the whole rack catching fire and melting everything, then it's true that AWS could recover quicker than self-hosted. But most problems are not of that sort.