[bryanlarsen]

Very few companies are big enough that they can make the devops overhead worth the price difference, but most of those plan on eventually being so. So there's an argument to be made that the knowledge should be grown in house while you can still tolerate the small outages you get when you have stuff misconfigured or unbalanced.

Probably not a good argument though. If you're successful enough to be saturating servers you're probably successful enough to be hiring experienced competent help for the transition.