From the developer angle? I'm not so sure. It's an N of 1, but I ran the Ops team for an e-commerce company that you're 50/50 likely to have heard of. I'm proud

From the developer angle? I'm not so sure. It's an N of 1, but I ran the Ops team for an e-commerce company that you're 50/50 likely to have heard of. I'm proud of how skilled and hard-working my e-comm systems/storage/network/DBA/DC-ops team of around 20 was, and the overall very good operational results we delivered. Even with that, AWS's out of the box offering utterly dominates what we could offer as a medium-sized operation. You might have 5 arbitrary points' worth less visibility behind the scenes, but you need 15 fewer points of visibility behind the scenes. (We're also on enterprise support and have an excellent support & solution architecture team attached to our account, but even for my side projects where I have no support plan whatsoever, I have enough visibility into how to make things work.)