I was being very tongue in cheek :)
> if by moving to the cloud you get someone else to take on that aspect of it, but otherwise keep your job, then aren't you always going to prefer cloud?
Quite possibly, yes. Paraphrasing Dan North: "Infrastructure is like surgery. If you need surgery, you really want to have surgery. But you always want to have the smallest amount of surgery possible."
Having a rack in a basement or co-lo might be "cheaper" for you. It might end up being a pain. The BMC infrastructure was relatively simple. We were early adopters of EC2 (so the financials _might_ have changed since then), we saved about 60% in explicit cost by shifting from co-lo to EC2. And my time was freed up because I didn't have to plan for or handle anywhere near as much infrastructure work.
We didn't make money directly from infrastructure so it always made sense to reduce the amount of infra I had to do because it increased the time I could spend closer to revenue generation
This post is just someone felt personally attacked for no reason and wrote an emotional text with no context.
