How you approach this is very different depending on the size of organization. We're a small shop (3), but we deliver big services to lots of people.
We do this by owning everything we can, and using simple vendors for what we can't.
We do this by owning everything we can, and using simple vendors for what we can't.
A 5 hour outage when headlines say "the internet is broken" may well be preferable to a 5 minute outage related to your far simpler and far more resilient setup