> Now if you want the kind of availability and redundancy that AWS offers you, you'll have to have a presence in multiple datacenters around the world, where these sorts of issues and others will multiply.

Wikimedia is serving Wikipedia (ranked #5 for Internet traffic) with ~550 servers out of Dallas, TX and Ashburn, VA for about $4 million/year in tech costs. OpenStreetMap infra is ~$120k-$150k/year (albeit with volunteers and some donated hosting capacity). Do you need Amazon to do better?

I am not trying to be a "stick in the mud". I am trying to save you money.