>In addition to being fast to deploy, cloud infrastructure lets you easily scale up and down to try things out And you can buy a single server for $5k that wil

>In addition to being fast to deploy, cloud infrastructure lets you easily scale up and down to try things out And you can buy a single server for $5k that will outperform $5k/month of EC2 VMs. >Also -- buying and managing colo is a fairly specialized discipline What? That is like saying "buying and managing phones is a fairly specialized discipline". No, it isn't. You give money, you get service. Not complicated. People have been able to handle this just fine for longer than you've been alive.