>People are far more expensive than managed infrastructure and that is what the comparison should be... not against 'bare metal.' When you compare the managed i

>People are far more expensive than managed infrastructure and that is what the comparison should be... not against 'bare metal.' When you compare the managed infra costs to bare metal directly, you are comparing apples to oranges. Clearly, because "DevOps" people / skills are for free right? Good software engineers who additionally have exp with Cloud and all its craziness definitely aren't asking for way higher salaries? I've worked in small size data center and the amount of work performed by 2x minimal wage technicians was huge. They were running on 5-10 engineers + 3 more skilled ppl at day and 1 person on night shift with 1 or 2 being "wakeable"