> "yeah guys I need half a year to provision 100 servers, 5 sys admins" It's this kind of gross exaggeration that's keeping AWS so profitable, I suspect. Half

> "yeah guys I need half a year to provision 100 servers, 5 sys admins" It's this kind of gross exaggeration that's keeping AWS so profitable, I suspect. Half a year and 5 sysadmins for only 100 server would do the NYC MTA subway construction team proud. > We have to minimize time to market, make money not build servers This is a false dichotomy, though. Of course you'd start with something where you can have infrastructure on day 1 of product launch. At small enough scale, cloud (or a VPS) is actually cheaper, too. Once you're at "time to market", if you're not re-evaluating, I'd say that's foolish. > make markup adjusted with price I'd expect any business to prefer to keep that markup for themselves as profit, assuming they even have that pricing power in the first place.