Yes and no. Quite a lot of my customers have designed their systems around separation of concerns, so they need 100 small services running. By having my own lay

Yes and no. Quite a lot of my customers have designed their systems around separation of concerns, so they need 100 small services running. By having my own layer in the middle, I can group those 100 service VMs onto 10 beefy physical servers, as opposed to actually needing 100 bare-metal servers to run their 100 services. But in the end, yes, I have roughly the same responsibility and much better margins.