In mid sized companies, creating/using/maintaining AWS resources requires nevertheless one or more teams of devops/sre. Out of experience, in the long run, thi

In mid sized companies, creating/using/maintaining AWS resources requires nevertheless one or more teams of devops/sre. Out of experience, in the long run, this "managed aws saved us because we didn't need people" feels always like the typical argument made by saas sales people. In reality, many services/saas are really expensive, and you probably will only need a few features which sometimes you can rollout yourself. The initial investment might be higher, but in the long run I think it's worth it. It's a lot like Heroku vs AWS. Superexpensive, but it allows you with little knowledge to push a POC in production. In this case, it's AWS vs self hosted or whatever. Finally, can we quantify the cost of data/information? This company seems to be really "using" this strategy (= everything home made, you're safe with us) for sales purposes. And it might work, although for the final consumer this might have a higher price, which finally pays the additional devops to maintain the system. So who cares? How important is for companies to not be subject to CLOUD act or funny stuff like that?