Yes. There's a reason companies like Digital Ocean, Heroku, OVH, ZEIT, Joyent, Rackspace, Linode, Cloudflare and many more have been able to survive and grow rapidly in an AWS-dominated space. None of them are competing by undercutting Amazon in price.

Ahh yes, the mythical four nines.

https://medium.com/@guisebule/the-sla-is-a-lie-babd16d629d2

"Better" in a niche-filling way, not a "this is very well engineered, but for my use case it's very overengineered" way.