[dijit]

Sure, then pay?

I don't understand the argument: "I want to outsource understanding but I want to save costs";

You can think of things as a spider-graph of three points:

Quality -- Low-Cost -- Knowledge-Required.

No solution can score high points on all three reasonably.

Anyway, things are a bit skewed because I'm an infrastructure type, and people in my profession really do think of systems administration tasks as being "very easy" and if done right soak up nearly no time at all, but developers don't like hearing that because sysadmins are "old world".

I don't really care if you're paying someone elses sysadmins or not, the fact remains that you're going to be spending something in that area, and if you balk at the cost of cloud then maybe taking ownership of what they do can help optimise costs.

Obviously they put a premium on their own time in these areas.

[aripickar]

I disagree. Once you increase your knowledge of AWS and associated systems, you can decrease cost of what you are doing through tips like what you see in this article. I don't quite get the point about optimizing cloud costs solely by switching to self hosted? Like of course you could do that, but you could also optimize costs by doing what the article says.

Full Disclosure: I work at AWS building tools to help customers do cost optimization.