While true in a lot of cases, the answer is still not a binary yes or no. AWS/Azure/GCP still add a lot of quality of life improvements to workflows. Performanc

While true in a lot of cases, the answer is still not a binary yes or no. AWS/Azure/GCP still add a lot of quality of life improvements to workflows. Performance is not the only metric to compare on. There’s also productivity, time and opportunity costs. There are real benefits in outsourcing or buying off the shelf. Second, it also depends on wether you are write or read heavy. SO is primarily read heavy and they can get away with most requests never hitting their main servers but instead being handled by a CDN. But overall I do agree. Dedicated would give you a performance boost compared to virtual machines. And sometimes it might be worth it to bring stuff in house and do it yourself.