Most of those pieces of software can be configured as well (load balancing methods, DB parameters, etc).<p>I don&#x27;t think we need less people, I think we need people to work differently. Also, an application needing of X amount of infrastructure persons will now need less than that, which frees resources to deploy more applications.<p>In a nutshell, I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re going to lose jobs at all. I think the cloud is a fundamental pillar of the startup system, which is creating so many jobs that didn&#x27;t exist before. Efficiency doesn&#x27;t drive us to less jobs - it drives us to more jobs.