> Your original comment gives an impression that you like AWS (...)

My comment is really not about AWS. It's about the apples-to-oranges comparison between the job of "Linux on-premises server administrator" and value-added of managing on-premises servers, and the role of "AWS administrator". Someone needs to be completely clueless to the realities of both job roles to assume they deliver the same value. They don't.

Someone with access to any of the cloud provider services on the market is able to whip out and scale up whole web applications with far more flexibility and speed than any conceivable on-premises setup managed with the same budget. This is not up for debate.

> How is an army of "devops" implementing your CF/CDK stack any different from an army of (lower paid) sysadmins running proxmox/openstack/k8s/etc on your hw?

Think about it for a second. With the exact same budget, how do you pull off a multi-region deployment with an on-premises setup managed by your on-premises linux admins? And even if your goal is providing a single deployment, how flexible are you to put up this scheme to test a prototype and afterwards shut down the service?

> Someone with access to any of the cloud provider services on the market is able to whip out and scale up whole web applications with far more flexibility and speed than any conceivable on-premises setup managed with the same budget.

Bullshit. I've seen people spin wheels for months/years deploying their cloud native jank and you should read the article - it's not nearly the same budget.

> Think about it for a second. With the exact same budget, how do you pull off a multi-region deployment with an on-premises setup managed by your on-premises linux admins?

You do realize things like site interconnect exist right? And it likely will be cheaper than paying your cloud inter-region transfer fees. You're going to be testing multi-regional prototype? please

Look there's a very simple reason why folks have been chasing public clouds and it has nothing to do their marketing spiel of elastic compute, increased velocity, etc. That reason is simple - teams get control of their spend without having to ask anyone for permission (like the old-school infra team).