> That still leaves sysadmins that you no longer need when using the cloud
Looking at our timesheets, managing cloud setups takes more time on average than managing bare metal server setups, and the amount of time spent handling hardware issues make up ~1%-2% of ops time spent on the bare metal setups for our systems. We "save" that on the cloud setups, but end up having spend more to account for dealing with crappy APIs to do all kinds of things we have much more direct control over instead.
Looking at our timesheets, managing cloud setups takes more time on average than managing bare metal server setups, and the amount of time spent handling hardware issues make up ~1%-2% of ops time spent on the bare metal setups for our systems. We "save" that on the cloud setups, but end up having spend more to account for dealing with crappy APIs to do all kinds of things we have much more direct control over instead.