This isn't nitpicking, it's why the cloud option is very rarely cheapest. I've costed this out for many organizations over the years and tested the assumptions.

This isn't nitpicking, it's why the cloud option is very rarely cheapest. I've costed this out for many organizations over the years and tested the assumptions. > It's cheaper to pay me to manage IAM roles for lambdas and ECS instances for 5% of my time than it is to pay someone full-time to manage some sort of VMware or other system. True, but it's a false equivalence, and one I often see used from people unaware of the ease of contracting this out on a fractional basis. I used to make a living cleaning up after people who thought cloud was easier, who ended up often spending a fortune untangling years of accumulated cruft that just never happened for my non-cloud customers.