>In 200X a lot of companies were able to maintain their own infrastructure, just like Facebook and Amazon did at the time. I worked at a decently large tech-is

>In 200X a lot of companies were able to maintain their own infrastructure, just like Facebook and Amazon did at the time. I worked at a decently large tech-ish company at that time. It took 3 months to provision a handful of dev servers in the data center. After filling out forms in triplicate. We asked for extras since we had almost zero ability to manage them (reboot, etc.) or get them re-built if something broke. No backups of any kind as far as I knew. We once had one break at night and apparently someone had to psychically drive there at 3am to reboot the thing after we filed a ticket. Used some sort of in-house distribution of linux that had it's own quirks. I'll take the cloud any day of the week.