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@kingrat Yeah, good point regarding the work being done as a huge factor in the tradeoffs—there are definitely some cases where own-hardware is the better option, but it seems to me challenging to make blanket statements that are accurate.

@tito_swineflu In my experience, getting location redundancy with decent security is the more challenging aspect of managing one's own hardware.

In AWS I can easily spin up multiple datacenters in a region, and relatively easily start up additional redundancy in another region altogether without needing to do all the contract review and negotiation that would be necessary for doing the same with my own hardware.