Comment by busterarm

Still missing the point. This is just one server and just in the dev enviornment?

How many pets do you want to be tending to? I have 10^5 servers I'm responsible for...

The quantity and methods the cloud affords me allow me to operate the same infrastructure with 1/10th as much labor.

At the extreme ends of scale this isn't a benefit, but for large companies in the middle this is the only move that makes any sense.

99% of posts I read talking about how easy and cheap it is to be in the datacenter all have a single digit number of racks worth of stuff. Often far less.

We operate physical datacenters as well. We spend multiple millions in the cloud per month. We just moved another full datacenter into the cloud and the difference in cost between the two is less than $50k/year. Running in physical DCs is really inefficient for us for a long of annoying and insurmountable reasons. And we no longer have to deal with procurement and vendor management. My engineers can focus their energy on more valuable things.