> Everything is more complex to debug, more expensive, and more shitty in all the possible ways you can imagine.
Coming from traditional infrastructure and development methods, you're mostly right. Part of the expectation of the cloud is that you do things _their way_. And even then each cloud provider does things a little differently. However, if you're willing to subscribe to the way of doing things it (and you'll have to trust me here) makes many things easier. Here's a short list:
* networking setup is free/cheap/doesn't require a Cisco cert. you can trust a developer to set things up.
* object storage is so much easier than any file hosting scheme you can come up with
* the path from container-on-a-host to container-in-a-cluster to container-in-{serverless,k8s} is extremely straightforward
* I turn all my dev/test servers off at night and they don't cost me a thing
* consumption based compute will result in a much cheaper solution than a VPS or colo (admittedly there are many assumptions baked into this)
* some core services (like sqs, sns on Amazon) are extremely cheap and have provably reduced development time because you're not having to build these abstractions yourself.
This all being said I'm not advocating an all-in approach without thinking it through, but to do so where it's easy and makes sense.
EDIT: clarity