Smaller companies doing this (and possibly some big ones) are  essentially outsourcing &quot;Ops&quot; by using &quot;cloud&quot; providers.<p>The number of people that think somehow using AWS means you no longer need Ops staff is amazing. In a bad way. How often does &quot;we can&#x27;t afford our own Ops so we use AWS&#x2F;Azure&#x2F;etc&quot; come up as a reason to accept the associated vendor lock in with a given provider?