I think what a lot of people fail to understand is that there are certain categories of apps that simply “can never go down”
Examples include basically any PaaS, IaaS, or any company that provides a mission-critical service to another company (B2B SaaS).
If you run a basic B2C CRUD app, maybe it’s not a big deal if you service goes down for 5 minutes. Unfortunately there are quite a few categories of companies where downtime simply isn’t tolerated by customers. (I operate a company with a “zero downtime” expectation from customers - it’s no joke, and I would never use any infrastructure abstraction layer other than AWS, GCP or Azure - preferably AWS us-east-1 because, well, if you know the joke…)
Examples include basically any PaaS, IaaS, or any company that provides a mission-critical service to another company (B2B SaaS).
If you run a basic B2C CRUD app, maybe it’s not a big deal if you service goes down for 5 minutes. Unfortunately there are quite a few categories of companies where downtime simply isn’t tolerated by customers. (I operate a company with a “zero downtime” expectation from customers - it’s no joke, and I would never use any infrastructure abstraction layer other than AWS, GCP or Azure - preferably AWS us-east-1 because, well, if you know the joke…)