Challenge accepted. Been building carrier grade equipment with significantly lower failure rates than that for >15 years. Gear I designed in my first year out of grad school is still in field use today.
New challenge: build your machines for low cost from commodity hardware, rent your machines out to millions of customers and never have a single customer have > 1% of the hardware they land on fail.
That's moving the goalpost too far for my taste. But assuming this is true and AWS/GCE are doing this then why are their prices so high?