In my view, this is why cloud exists. You can externalize as much of your software stack as possible to the cloud platform, and only implement and maintain yourself the parts that differentiate. On AWS, this means using Lambda, Step Functions, AppSync, API Gateway, DynamoDB etc. and letting the cloud provider worry about maintaining most of the technology stack.
But we tend to forget all the outages we had while self-hosting datacenters and servers before 2010 ;-) Of course, times also changed since early days, so that it is more and more important to be up 24/7.
