I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s even better than that. At my last company we used our own hardware, but we still benefited from Docker, Consul, Chef, graphana, etc. There&#x27;s a lot there that is cloud-agnostic.<p>For example, service discovery is still service discovery. You still have, say, a hundred machines running the listeners API. Are you going to keep a manual tally of that? Or better to just start consul client from the ansible&#x2F;chef provisioner, and let &quot;dns&quot; handle the load balancing. You can implement &quot;connection draining&quot; by downing the health check url before going offline on a node. Just one example, but yea, there&#x27;s a lot of ease and maturity in the new services way of doing things now.