> And finally you have a brilliant idea of hiring a second $150k/year dev ops admin (...) in my experience you always need a "Devops team" to operate all that

> And finally you have a brilliant idea of hiring a second $150k/year dev ops admin (...) in my experience you always need a "Devops team" to operate all that cloud stuff; so to paraphrase - suddenly you're spending $400k on three devops to operate $500k cloud I think The Promise behind the cloud was you just pay for the service and not worry about it, but in practice you need some team to maintain it