[weberc2]

What are you comparing? If you’re comparing a large, HA SaaS use case with a static website on a VPS, then of course the latter requires less DevOps work, but if you hold the use cases equivalent, AWS requires much less DevOps work than bare metal. Notably, just because you’re using bare metal doesn’t mean the motivation for infra-as-code goes away; to the contrary, you need more of it because you’re now managing more services that come out-of-the box on AWS.

[xraystyle]

Your static site would still probably be better on AWS. Whack it into an S3 bucket, put cloudfront in front of it, and you have a globally scalable, CDN-enabled static site with at least five 9's of reliability and it costs you peanuts.