> If you and your team are better at taking care of hardware than an entire building full of highly paid engineering specialists The trade offs aren't quite th

> If you and your team are better at taking care of hardware than an entire building full of highly paid engineering specialists The trade offs aren't quite that simple. Those specialists are necessary because they're building and maintaining infrastructure that's extremely complex since it has a crazy scale and has to be all things to all people. When you're running in-house, your infrastructure is simpler because it's custom tailored to your specific requirements and scale. There are tradeoffs that make cloud vs local make sense in different contexts and there's no one right answer.