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I can agree with most of the article but consider that not every startup has a sys-admin or can afford one. We are also a startup and we use AWS + heroku because we don't want to focus on setting up a ruby server and handle deployment pipelines and all that. This is the BIG advantage of cloud. Yes we don't use a lot of AWS tools but S3 is "pay as you go" exactly for that reason. The only reason we might need to switch to a Hetzner-like architecture is because our customers want the data to be in Germany. No other reason could move us there tbh.