This would only work if you have a solid devops team imo. AWS makes it extremely easy to deploy and scale infra. Another advantage of AWS is permission managem

This would only work if you have a solid devops team imo. AWS makes it extremely easy to deploy and scale infra. Another advantage of AWS is permission management, automatic RDS snapshots, cloudwatch comes out of the box... You can do everything with VMs, but in practise it's probably much harder.