> It's sort of like saying, instead of taking cars from your corporate fleet to a repair shop when they break, repair them yourself! Just hire some mechanics, b

> It's sort of like saying, instead of taking cars from your corporate fleet to a repair shop when they break, repair them yourself! Just hire some mechanics, build or rent a garage and equipment, and voila! And also, why are you buying electricity from the electric company anyway? Just build a generator next to your office building! Maybe make it nuclear just like some of the big electric companies! I think this is an unfair analogy. It would be more akin to saying instead of hiring Ubers and taxi's and spending several tens of thousands a quarter, buy a couple of cars for the company. But instead of needing a single person to onboard people onto the company's taxi account and paying the invoice each month, you instead need someone to buy the cars, ensure they're taxed and certified, create an internal hiring system, etc. For some companies it does make financial sense to have your own fleet of cars, in others it makes more sense to get Ubers. It's exactly the same as cloud vs not-cloud. If you're not taking advantage of the cloud (e.g. serverless technologies) why pay that premium when a small number of dedicated machines and a simpler architecture/stack will do the job better and cheaper? They're only as difficult to maintain as complex cloud environments.