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I saw that the article mentioned maintenance being minimal right now but at some point, you will need to hire an SRE or some such individual to handle just the Hetzner subsystem for you. Is that part of the TCO calculations?

E.g., if you’re paying someone $5-7000/month (no idea what an SRE costs) to manage a fleet of say 10 subsystems, their salary should factor into the cost calculations, right?

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But you also need to hire someone to manage the AWS infrastructure.

And the need to use-only-as-needed creates additional burden that doesn't exist with cheaper monthly-paid hardware.

The answer might very well be "it will take less time to manage AWS", but it's not clear. Some might need a pay-stack to handle the cloud's pricing.

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