You're over-simplifying. Amazon provides power, servers, bandwidth and their network. You still need administrators and ops people. If you colo, your data-cen

You're over-simplifying. Amazon provides power, servers, bandwidth and their network. You still need administrators and ops people. If you colo, your data-center will provide power and bandwidth. You just need your cabinet network and the servers. On top of that, Amazon costs more, and expose you to problems like the EBS outage that you simply don't have with colocation because you haven't gone and developed a (probably necessarily) complex provisioning system to manage it all. The implication in your statements is clear that the act of purchasing, provisioning and maintaining hardware is a primary driver of your IT/Operations work-load, when in reality that's a minority concern at best for most. It borders on misinformation.