If you manage things right its not that hard. Unfortunately there are not all that many good devops people. Expect to pay them as much as higher end devs. But o

If you manage things right its not that hard. Unfortunately there are not all that many good devops people. Expect to pay them as much as higher end devs. But overall you can save a ton of money hiring some of those and passing on the outrageous AWS markup on CPU and bandwidth.