I 100% agree with this. I don't see how the average internal platform-engineering team or "devops" team will be a better platform-engineering team than AWS/GCP etc.
This is exactly how I've been selling the whole idea of hardcore, cloud-native to leadership & our customers. Most responses begin something like:
"By leveraging the capabilities of a multi-trillion dollar Death Star ..."
The objective is to get completely out of the game of managing VMs, certificates, authentication, MFA, et. al. There is no way in hell we can do a better job than any cloud provider when it comes to compliance, consistency, security, etc.
Maybe when we have 10k+ employees we can reconsider the benefits of suffering additional complexity.
"By leveraging the capabilities of a multi-trillion dollar Death Star ..."
The objective is to get completely out of the game of managing VMs, certificates, authentication, MFA, et. al. There is no way in hell we can do a better job than any cloud provider when it comes to compliance, consistency, security, etc.
Maybe when we have 10k+ employees we can reconsider the benefits of suffering additional complexity.