[itronitron]

Can someone explain why a company would pay a cloud provider extra to manage an open source API for them when they could just run it in the cloud themselves?

[toomuchtodo]

Cheaper than spending the time doing it yourself until you’re paying people to do it for you.

Time is the ultimate non-renewable resource. Throw dollars at the problem when you have them and it’s cheaper than your time.

[itronitron]

I think a lot of companies have a hard time managing that transition as they scale up though.