I think the argument that Convox is a good fit for AWS-only shops has a lot of merit. Specialising comes with different benefits from generality.<p>I and many others have been saying for a long time that CF is hard to approach due to its completeness and the all-or-nothing power of BOSH. PCFDev is chipping away at some of it; the bosh-boatloader[0] project should take away a lot of the remaining &quot;this is too hard to install&quot; pain.<p>That said, yes, you can run very large installations of CF with small teams. The whole of Pivotal Web Services is run by 2 shifts of the Cloudops team, I think 2-4 pairs each.  What makes that possible is BOSH, which solves the everliving daylights out of deploying and repairing software on an IaaS.<p>And we have some more cool stuff coming :)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pivotal-cf-experimental&#x2F;bosh-bootloader" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pivotal-cf-experimental&#x2F;bosh-bootloader</a>