kidros

This was my exact thought when I hit that point in the article. How am I supposed to know the probability to make these calculations? And if I make up numbers that "seem" reasonable, how is that better than buying insurance to sleep better?

This is such a hilarious oversimplification.

Except it's not anywhere near as complex because you need to manage far far less using the AWS services than if you ran all of your own inside a k8s cluster. And even if you use k8s, you're probably already using most of those anyway. Who bothers building their own container hosting and file hosting at a startup?

Certainly seems that way, and it's written by a guy who promoted ivermectin as a "wonder drug" and had his certification revoked by the American Board of Internal Medicine. WTF is this doing on HN?