No it won't reach 0, for many reasons. - Things change and break. You are paying for people to fix that for you at 2 AM, and to keep up with industry developme

No it won't reach 0, for many reasons. - Things change and break. You are paying for people to fix that for you at 2 AM, and to keep up with industry developments and best practices and make those decisions for you. - Legal risk and compliance requirements change. You are paying for them to keep up with those for you. - Overhead imposed by multi-tenancy. Security boundaries, control planes, etc. These are fixed operational costs caused by the abstraction. You're not paying for just an abstraction, you're paying for the things the abstraction enables. It's also not always what you need. But it often makes good business sense.