[late2part]

But, the purists would reply, if you simply outsource all your hardware to AWS or another place, you don't ned that ops or capacity planning. Until you do. This weekend AWS ran out of i2.2xlarge instances in a particular AZ, for example.

[ecnahc515]

Hate to tell ya, but at anything other than the 'prototyping stage', you'll probably need a dedicated OPs guy, AWS or not.

[dreamfactory2]

that's noops/movedops not devops