As a software engineer you should not ever have had to be responsible for those things - that would be the job of network engineers and system engineers. For a

As a software engineer you should not ever have had to be responsible for those things - that would be the job of network engineers and system engineers. For a small company that is only rolling one rack then I agree it makes sense to cloud host a lot of it (especially variable workloads). But keep in mind you can also roll your own hardware and have "the cloud" as your magic machine that pops up if your rack (or the connection to that datacenter) dies.