> > Might as well rent bare-metal servers. It will cost you less. > Long term, but up front costs are what make cloud services appealing. There are no up fron

> > Might as well rent bare-metal servers. It will cost you less. > Long term, but up front costs are what make cloud services appealing. There are no up front costs. GP said rent dedicated, not buy your own metal. If there's anything in cloud it's the many pre-written services (queue, database etc) but GP is right: if you go k8s you aren't going to use many/at all so why not just go and rent cheap servers that get deployed in two minutes instead of renting expesive virtual servers which get deployed in a few seconds?