I mean there’s a middle ground. A while ago I was part of a corporate takeover. The company being taken over was bleeding money to AWS. The new owners, who kn

I mean there’s a middle ground. A while ago I was part of a corporate takeover. The company being taken over was bleeding money to AWS. The new owners, who knew nothing about tech, held a series of meetings where it was decided we would rent a server at a data center (maintenance included), and move everything to Kubernetes. Not only was the cost reduced by a factor of 100s, but efficiency increases, and errors decreased. It was a decision with no downsides. To this day I’m still stumped why AWS is preferred over doing it yourself. I know the arguments. But for many small companies, a box in the wall (with a backup on a different continent) should do it.