10 Years ago when i needed a machine for anything, i had to create a ticket, wait a week or so to get what? One machine. Than i got told, that they have to con

10 Years ago when i needed a machine for anything, i had to create a ticket, wait a week or so to get what? One machine. Than i got told, that they have to control it, otherwise backup and restore is not supported and on the other hand, they were only able to install stuff like svn by spending virtual 3 project days! 3! I never asked what it would cost to install some etherpad. Two years ago in a startup, i logged into aws, clicked around for an hour and had 2 isolated networks, 4 instances, a load balancer, dns server, snapshot and backup configured. A few mouseclicks later i could have had an autoscaler as well. Ops / own Hardware is a means to an end.