> Ops, security, and reliability don’t go away when using EC2 either, which is what led the massive cloud explosion. I'd argue that in many cases they do get s

> Ops, security, and reliability don’t go away when using EC2 either, which is what led the massive cloud explosion. I'd argue that in many cases they do get significantly easier in a cloud environment especially for lightweight setups. For example, if you run a managed sql database in aws backups are largely handled for you. Upgrades take a handful of clicks and ~5 mins. You dont have to think about patching the underlying operating system. Broadly speaking, cloud providers give you lots of tools to make things that were fiddly much easier.