> It can also be cheaper in headcount since you need fewer operators and less expertise in datacenter operations. I've not really seen this work out well. I th

> It can also be cheaper in headcount since you need fewer operators and less expertise in datacenter operations. I've not really seen this work out well. I think it might be true for simple set-ups, letting a tiny developer team also handle infra and support without going nuts doing it, if they set it up that way from the beginning, but more-complex setups always seem to have so damn many sharp edges and moving pieces that support ends up looking similar to what a far more DIY approach (short of building one's own datacenter outright) would, in terms of time lost to it. ... and so does downtime, for that matter.