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Interesting idea. If I were to challenge it, how this differs from setting up a terraform (or other automation) that will set up and change infra for me? Also that sound like you're not writing the code, but initially DevOps was all about writing the code and shipping it yourself. Perhaps a IaaS is a better wording here, but then, again, whats the difference?

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Hey, thanks for challenging this. Good questions!

It doesn't differ from you setting up terraform or aws cdk yourself. If you know how to do that or have that expertise in house and have time to do that you don't need this.

I'm programmer for 21 years, I could do coding but this is focused on infrastructure itself: Setting up CI/CD, networks, instances, rds, security, monitoring etc. etc.

I know DevOps is combination of Dev(elopment) and Op(eration)s but from what I've seen in many companies it's like 90% dev and 10% ops, and not so many devs are so keen to learn ins and outs of AWS (or other clouds) and those who know that tend to be expensive.

So idea here is to help I think mostly smaller companies who don't have enough Ops work for fulltime person. I hope this could be good option for them.

So maybe DevOps is not most correct word, maybe could be Stunning Infra or Stunning Ops but I have a feeling DevOps is more catching phrase/term.

IaaS might be better wording but again I assume that not every company who want/need/must use cloud has knowlege (or time to learn) how to setup and use it properly. (just running scout suite usually reveals lot of basic mistakes).

It's basically a different take on DevOps/Infrastructure agency.

Thank you againf or feedback!

Thanks for the answer. That makes sense. I was looking at the pricing and it may be a bit misleading because you express it as a monthly payment and the FAQ says pause anytime. So in the end I can have a single request and will only pay for the time this request used. Perhaps you can add (x$/month or y$/day or hour), that will tell the customers it's more "on demand" like renting EC2.

Thaks for follow up.

If you just pause you're gonna use all your month anyway, only later. It's a commitment. I undrestand you might not have month of work at once. Important thing for me is that I get at least $4900 from each customer - month worth of work.

If you cancel (before you use whole month) and get a refund for unused days, I assume you're not happy so you'll not come back, fair. There is always some investment on my side too to understand what is needed or what is current state of infrastructure so I want to avoid people just coming for 2 days of work for few bucks. Does it make sense?

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