Things are not quite cut and dry operationally. Some places may have only a few hundred MB of data but they need really high availability and performance (proba

Things are not quite cut and dry operationally. Some places may have only a few hundred MB of data but they need really high availability and performance (probably picked the wrong solution IMO but still...) which is better guaranteed hosting it yourself and perhaps even outside the cloud. Most places the availability of whatever a hosted solution provides is a better value than spending engineering hours to maintain these things. Devops / SRE folks are expensive compared to most other engineers that deliver features primarily. My point is that a ton of companies (more for cultural reasons than business requirements IME) are so freaked out by any downtime in any way that they’re going to pay for an engineer to just maintain these things themselves.