Re: Resilience
This is a dumb answer - it bad now, so no harm making it worse.
The internet depends far too much on the US. All it takes is for some political event there to break things.
You’ve factored that in your cloud deployment? No.
There are other models - for eg serviced models, that can bring benefits of technology reuse, expertise and template applications.
It does not need to be the present model, which is centralised and with a much larger attack surface.
Isn’t this outsourcing everything. It’s easier for sure.
A good design is the simplest design that gets the job done, not the easiest. That has and will always be true.