Absolutely agree. I do actually run a server in my house for personal services however the difference between running personal infrastructure and running a serv

Absolutely agree. I do actually run a server in my house for personal services however the difference between running personal infrastructure and running a service for paying customers is night and day. You may not need your own data centres ala Google but that doesn’t mean the only other option is running everything on a PC stashed away in your closet. In fact the very advantage of cloud computing is you can scale your infrastructure to meet your demand (and I don’t just mean auto-scaling; but also the instance sizes you run and infrastructure you deploy). Which is the point I was making in my previous post: you can build the infrastructure which suits your problem and let the cloud provider deal with many of the “enterprisey” problems for you. Then when you reach the point where you need to start worrying about the big problems, well you can decide how you want to design your solutions there after.