[badams2527]

Human capital side would disagree with that I think. You're assuming the organization which owns this small/medium web app has the personnel already on staff to handle such a thing.

If you're outsourcing that, you'd likely have to pay a boatload just for someone to be available for help, let alone the actual tasks themselves. Like you said, if you're on-prem and something goes down, you can do something. But you've gotta have the personnel to actually do something.

That said, I think you're spot-on as long as you have the skillset already.

[Retric]

You still need to pay someone to manage AWS infrastructure. It’s possible to save money using AWS, but things often get more expensive.

[nostrebored]

Of SMBs I’ve worked with, about 5% had a dedicated AWS engineer

[Nextgrid]

Maybe non-tech businesses which I’m not very familiar with. But most startups absulutely have a dedicated DevOps engineer.

[Nextgrid]

> Human capital side would disagree with that I think

I hear this argument a lot, but every startup I've been involved with had a full-time DevOps engineer wrangling Terraform & YAML files - that same engineer can be assigned to manage the bare-metal infrastructure.

[dragonwriter]

> I hear this argument a lot, but every startup I've been involved with had a full-time DevOps engineer wrangling Terraform & YAML files - that same engineer can be assigned to manage the bare-metal infrastructure.

Bare metal infrastructure requires a lot more management at any given scale. I mean, you can run stuff that lets you do part of the management the same as cloud resources, but you also have to then manage that software and manage the hardware.

[bcrosby95]

Define "a lot".

We colocate about 20 servers and on the average month, no one spends any time managing them. At all.