Comment by toast0

I've certainly done some things where outsourcing hosting meant I didn't have to manage infrastructure. For services running on vm instances in gcp vs services running on bare metal managed hosts, there's not a whole lot of difference in terms of management IMHO.

But any infrastructure that the product I support use is infrastructure I need to manage; having it outside my control just makes it that much harder to manage. If it's outside my control, the people who control it better do a much better job than I would at managing it, otherwise it's going to be a much bigger pain.