In my experience, the only OS that (usually) suspends when told to do so is mac. Linux and Windows both struggle with it depending on your hardware.

It is cheap as long as you don’t need to restore your data. Downloading data from S3 costs a lot. OP asked about 56TB of storage, for which data retrieval would cost about 4.7k

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ under data transfer

citric acid is a dope cleaning agent against limescale. It reacts with limescale and turns it into water and CO2. Works wonders in kettles too

Yes, if everything is configured correctly, then an outage can be either avoided completely or reduced to the time it takes to switch the traffic over (and scale up and so on). But this is not the case as can be seen from today’s events.

Ah, multi cloud. Before we had an outage when AWS went down, now we have an outage every time any cloud provider goes down

It is doable, but it is a pain if the docker requires any special config like permanent storage. Getting nginx up and running for mTLS was especially annoying

Truenas Scale works well as long as you don’t want any dockers on it. Once you want to run docker images it is easier to install a VM on Truenas and run the docker from there than it is to try to set up custom “Apps”

When that happens, I can finally retire my Thinkpad x200 laptops which serve as print servers and diagnostic software VM hosts. One can never have too many Linux laptops