AWS, Azure and GCP provide services beyond just hosting. They address concerns like log mangagment, automated patching, secrets management, database hosting, e

AWS, Azure and GCP provide services beyond just hosting. They address concerns like log mangagment, automated patching, secrets management, database hosting, encrypted volumes. to name a few. A growing company will need those very quickly and these issues can bog you down if not implemented correctly. Also, the big three deliver infrastructure-as-code, which may seem uneneccesary at first but I have found it incredibly easy to manage and govern them compared to ad-hoc management of servers and network firwalls. Your CTO is smart.