> If you’re a startup you want to focus on your product, and all this cloud tech is just a distraction. All technology is a distraction... > AWS is for big co

> If you’re a startup you want to focus on your product, and all this cloud tech is just a distraction. All technology is a distraction... > AWS is for big companies with a lot of turnover that can’t run their own machines. Or for start-ups that want to pay somebody to manage their machines. I thought you were just complaining about distractions? Isn't running your own machines a distraction? > Unless your startup needs so much compute or storage that running your own dedicated machines becomes unmanageable I think you should just say “no” to all of it. An extremely reasonable decision. I'll just run everything myself until it all falls apart and then struggle to move to the cloud while my business flounders.