> No it’s using an army of extremely well paid engineers, something I guarantee the parent comment has no access to

That's a different argument to the one I replied to, and the reply to "they have expensive infra people" is "you have to have expensive product-trained people to use them anyway".

It’s not really a different argument

The suggestion was to replace DBB and S3 with some VMs. Presumably those VMs would be managed by the engineers part of the parent commenter’s organization. They do not have access to as many engineers as AWS, nor do they pay them as well.

Not arguing about cost effectiveness here. Just pointing out how silly it is to suggest that you can replace DDB/S3 with some VMs ran by a midsize organization

It's probably 5 juniors fighting fires in reality and not giving a crap for your service. :P