Yeah there are people who are talking about blah blah blah cloud complexity and how on-prem is some panacea. What they're really getting at is "why go through

Yeah there are people who are talking about blah blah blah cloud complexity and how on-prem is some panacea. What they're really getting at is "why go through all this trouble to setup autoscaling groups and load balancers when I'm perfectly fine running things on a single Pentium II whitebox sitting in my closet?" It doesn't seem to occur to them that although that might work _for them_ the whole reason we go through this labor is we need MORE than that.