Really good points. Maintaining your own infrastructure may be "boring" with "old" technologies. But its a known process. Its really easy. But with the cloud i

Really good points. Maintaining your own infrastructure may be "boring" with "old" technologies. But its a known process. Its really easy. But with the cloud its a whole different domain. It may be easy too, but I don't think its as easy as hosting your own. And your last two lines are great. It really comes down to the company about which tradeoff is appropriate.