100%. There are definitely cases where managing your own dedicated server infra (not hardware, just the software part) makes sense. For me, the allure of the c

100%. There are definitely cases where managing your own dedicated server infra (not hardware, just the software part) makes sense. For me, the allure of the cloud is not some FAANG scalability fad when its not required, but automatic OS patching, automatic load balancing, NAT services, centralized, analyzable logs, database services that I don't have to manage, out of the box rolling upgrades to services, managing crypto-keys and secrets, and of course, object storage. (These are all the things we use in our startup) I'd go on a limb and say dedicated servers may be very viable/cost effective when we reach a certain scale, instead of the other way round. For the moment, the cloud expenses are worth it for my startup.