[cookiecaper]

Yeah. It seems like everyone is hopping aboard that bandwagon and doesn't remember a world before 2009. For $1M, you can get yourself a very beefy server farm.

AWS accounts still take management and a team of people that need to maintain a whole lot of different aspects of it, so you're not really saving on headcount. You're just moving that capex to opex.

It's important to be flexible enough to be able to deploy onto a cloud provider if the situation demands (e.g., new client demands infrastructure run in $FOREIGN_REGION_X where you don't already have a DC), but everyone's insistence on going 1000% AWS is absurd and IMO totally unjustifiable.