No shit. I was DevOps at my last company and they were all in on AWS. In those 5 years we had one major outage. There was one other case of a particular service going down, forgot which one, but it mainly screwed DevOps and the db guys.

You're talking to a bunch of young people who hate Bezos and by extension AWS. They have no idea what the internet was like before.

Personally I think the cost is outrageous, rather have my own hardware mirrored in geographically distant colos, but that doesn't mean AWS isn't amazing.