I think there's a lot of FUD spread by Cloud providers and people who make money mainly out of it ("Cloud Engineers", consultants, etc.) about how hard it is to

I think there's a lot of FUD spread by Cloud providers and people who make money mainly out of it ("Cloud Engineers", consultants, etc.) about how hard it is to setup and manage hardware + software. In many cases it is actually easier to do it for a bespoke solution than some cloud Frankenstein.