Bare metal is cheaper than cloud (not just AWS), sure. But you also have to know how to do bare metal right - you need the knowledge base, and that is a critica

Bare metal is cheaper than cloud (not just AWS), sure. But you also have to know how to do bare metal right - you need the knowledge base, and that is a critical point. You don't want to be training up new developers in how to properly install and monitor raid cards, for example. But if you only see AWS as "virtualised servers", you're probably not using them to the best you can.