Often the calculations of managing your own hardware is pretty naive. Folks are correct that they can hire a couple of infrastructure folks to build out a sing

Often the calculations of managing your own hardware is pretty naive. Folks are correct that they can hire a couple of infrastructure folks to build out a single datacentre, but often there datacentres aren't as big nor as resilient as what they'd get from AWS, at least not at the scale where the luck factor starts to fall to statistics.