[geodel]

Well Amazon CEO himself said, there is no shortcut to experience. I am sure gaining experience in developing infrastructure solution will give you respectable return in long term. Of course Cloud vendors will be happy to sell turnkey solutions to you though.

[doctor_eval]

Yeah - I do agree, over the long term, that deploying this internally would be the best outcome for them, and would give them some great skills. But this article did put the Fear in me a little.

One of the main drivers of the project is to reduce our reliance on software vendors and move to open source solutions, so a hybrid/on-prem cloud vendor is probably not on the cards for us either.