AWS created a Cambrian explosion of people hosting stuff that have no business doing so. Those people can't just go back to colocating hardware at datacenters..

AWS created a Cambrian explosion of people hosting stuff that have no business doing so. Those people can't just go back to colocating hardware at datacenters... I wonder if they could even effectively get their equipment racked and wired up. Having to get approval for a capital expense was a filter that prevented teams with zero ops experience from trying to just brute-force google their way through. The teams I see the most often, in pre-cloud days got nothing done because touching a server meant going through experienced ops teams that could conduct architecture reviews, security reviews and maintenance planning but which didn't have any motivation or incentives to actually launch new products. Cloud means these teams can get things done, at the expense of not having any thought put to architecture, security, or maintenance. Sure, it's not hard, but it's not possible for them.