This too was our experience. We had several clusters running on one of the managed services. The cost didn't justify what we could do with running it ourselves.

This too was our experience. We had several clusters running on one of the managed services. The cost didn't justify what we could do with running it ourselves. We're lucky to have experience with Postgres, performing backups (of the various types) and restoring DBs on production environments. We don't have things automated, but that would be next. I think startups are hard to do it in-house, not for a lack of expertise (or willingness to get it), but the fact that there are already so many things to handle.