Can you cite your sources?

AWS "reliability" has been the direct cause of a number of sleepless nights for me over the years. Comparing to a few years ago when I worked on a large-scale product hosted on bare metal servers that worked beautifully, I don't think AWS is all it is hyped up to be.

Anecdotal, I know, but even with no experience using Backblaze or Bunny, the bar they would have to meet is a lot lower than you're implying.

I'm talking about my personal experience, on blackblaze the number of 500 errors was simply not acceptable for my use case, likewise for performance and latency. I was a bit disappointed by bunny cdn rps/latency. But indeed price is not at all comparable.

Also I'm not talking about any aws service but more specifically about S3 a d CloudFront.

Finally, as I said above those blackblaze and bunny are amazing if you try to optimize the cost as your main goal.

Counting today's outage? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267222

I guess you get what you paid for but how much of a difference is there? The cost saving it advertises is quite alluring.

Afaik Backblaze has maintenance every Thursday during which they don’t guarantee uptime.