[busterarm]

I think the point that you're making here is subtle and that people are missing it.

Your small team can _comfortably manage_ 50k/mo worth of AWS resources. That's _INCREDIBLE_.

I think people mistakenly think that cloud costs only go up exponentially and that costs are an unmanageable mess.

I've worked with teams with hundreds of engineers serving a major enterprise and only an AWS bill 3-5x yours. And they only had a small team managing it all. Comfortably.

To do similar with physical servers requires a massive stack of people and salaries. The ongoing recruiting costs to maintain staffing would dwarf what the AWS bill is.

[apple4ever]

> To do similar with physical servers requires a massive stack of people and salaries. The ongoing recruiting costs to maintain staffing would dwarf what the AWS bill is.

No no they wouldn't. Number of people is equal for both, its just different tasks they have to do.

[busterarm]

I do both at roughly 10^5 scale and I'm telling you that operating in the cloud lets us operate with an order of magnitude less people.