Just yesterday I saw another Hetzner thread where someone claimed AWS beats them in uptime and someone else blasted AWS for huge incidents. I bet his coffee tastes better this morning.
If you are on AWS and AWS goes down, that's covered in the news as a bunch of billion dollar companies were also down. Customer probably gives you a pass.
Exactly - I've had clients say, "We'll pay for hot standbys in the same region, but not in another region. If an entire AWS region goes down, it'll be in the news, and our customers will understand, because we won't be their only service provider that goes down, and our clients might even be down themselves."
Show up at a meeting where a whole bunch of people appear to have wet themselves, and we’ll all agree not to mention it ever again…