Ok, I will try to counter that. The stack grows higher. More specialized employees become more effective. In 200X you just needed a Linux admin. Now on top of b

Ok, I will try to counter that. The stack grows higher. More specialized employees become more effective. In 200X you just needed a Linux admin. Now on top of being good a good Linux admin you also need to know docker, kubernetes (the admin part, not the user part) etc. If you don’t need that daily, because you also need to maintain some apps, you will be less professional than a cloud provider. Of course it’s a trade-off. If you’re large, with constant high resource needs and benefit from custom optimization, you may be better off with your own team/infrastructure. If you’re small (2 it guys), fast changing, normal speed requirements / easy to scale out then the cloud should be interesting to you.