The problem is all those people you listed would still exist plus the 120k bill to Amazon.
They may or may not be doing other things depending on the company size and state.
You could drop the PM, engineers writing for engineers don’t need a PM.
You will likely hire similarly costed engineers to maintain the database stack anyways.
You basically hit all the talking points big cloud has brainwashed people into thinking into being true, but every day we see stories of a handful of engineers doing something we are told can’t be done and saving millions in cloud cost.
It’s so painful to watch. Software Engineering became a thing because you could hire a engineer solve your problem, and big businesses stepped in and told you that your problem was something else and gone out of its way to stifle innovation by settling industry standards on how to do things that only guarantee you use cloud services.
Any company that wants to own its destiny knows to stay away from lock-in.
They may or may not be doing other things depending on the company size and state.
You could drop the PM, engineers writing for engineers don’t need a PM.
You will likely hire similarly costed engineers to maintain the database stack anyways.
You basically hit all the talking points big cloud has brainwashed people into thinking into being true, but every day we see stories of a handful of engineers doing something we are told can’t be done and saving millions in cloud cost.
It’s so painful to watch. Software Engineering became a thing because you could hire a engineer solve your problem, and big businesses stepped in and told you that your problem was something else and gone out of its way to stifle innovation by settling industry standards on how to do things that only guarantee you use cloud services.
Any company that wants to own its destiny knows to stay away from lock-in.