alt Hacker News> The cloud ain't magic folks, it's just someone else's servers.
The cloud is where the entire responsibility for those servers lives elsewhere.
If you're going to run a VM, sure. But when you're running a managed db with some managed compute, the cost for that might be high in comparison. But you just offloaded the whole infra management responsibility. That's their value add
But any serious deployment of "cloud" infrastructure still needs management, you're just forcing the people doing it to use the small number of knobs the cloud provider makes available rather than giving them full access to the software itself.