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I was generally aligned with you until I joined a very small SaaS startup recently. The cloud abstracts away so much which in turn frees up the attention span of those typically committed to infra setup and maintenance. Not to mention the proliferation of services that live in the cloud space that simply being on the cloud unlocks. I’ve made no attempt to formally quantify this, but if many old-world tasks are reduced to almost entirely passive monitoring and “one-click” adjustments, then the freed attention span alone might be worth whatever marginal on-paper excesses the cloud might bring. Personally, managing servers and diagnosing outages or degraded infra performance is some of the most grinding and existentially draining work there is.

But then again we don’t host videos. If this is a special case then I guess ignore everything I just said.