"building your small web app on top of the cloud infrastructure is essentially a case of premature optimization." Ah, I thought it was the opposite... at first

"building your small web app on top of the cloud infrastructure is essentially a case of premature optimization." Ah, I thought it was the opposite... at first you use the cloud to take advantage of the infrastructure at a low cost and with much less management and then when you get big you start hosting your own stuff because it's cheaper and it's worth it. (I'm ignorant on those matters)