Brief AWS outages were limited to us-east-1 where they appear to deploy canary builds and I think they quickly learned from those missteps. OTOH I receive almost weekly emails on my oracle cloud instance connectivity being down. I don’t even understand who their customers are that can tolerate frequent outage

Edit - HN is on AWS now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026571

AWS also operates at a significantly larger scale. When was the last AWS outage due to two critical disks failing at the same time?

Failures due to increasing complexity are still failures.

Sure, but you're talking about all of AWS as if every customer is impacted when any part of AWS suffers a failure. But that's not the case, which makes it quite an apples/oranges comparison.

But even comparing the apples to the oranges, this HN status page someone else pointed out https://hn.hund.io/ seems to show that HN has had more than one outage in just the past month. All but today's and last night's being quite short, but still. Sometimes you need some extra complexity if you want to make it to zero downtime overall.

That's not something the HN website needs but I think AWS is doing fine even if that's your point of comparison.

Agree. Same with places like github.