The place I work at now wouldn’t exist without the cloud. We simply don’t have the money or manpower at this stage to run everything in house relative to the gr

The place I work at now wouldn’t exist without the cloud. We simply don’t have the money or manpower at this stage to run everything in house relative to the growth. That being said, a design philosophy I’ve imposed is KISS with largely off the shelf OSS solutions, that way we have the ability to move the software elsewhere in the future (I’d love to run in house if we get big enough). Of course, nothing is that simple but it’s much harder if not effectively impossible with something built significantly out of vendor-specific libraries and platforms. I don’t mind managed solutions as long they are completely swappable. Unfortunately, the people before me used DynamoDB as our persistence layer, but I digress.