> Part of the original promise from these providers was that there would be a 90%+ reduction in supporting work, when we all know the reality is that you become

> Part of the original promise from these providers was that there would be a 90%+ reduction in supporting work, when we all know the reality is that you become specialized in solving issues with Heroku/AWS/providerX For all but the most simple setups, providerX solutions are still better than maintaining your own bare metal solutions with their associated hardware / software / datacenter vendor relationships. Also, it’s not hard figuring out how to stand up a datacenter if it comes down to it and you want to pivot at some point. What’s actually hard is _growing_ and _distributing_ your datacenter to meet demand / legal requirements.