Those could count. But you'll still end up having to do some linux admin, which a lot of people can't do anymore.

The whole point is that the closer you can get to "write code, run code", the faster you can launch and innovate.

Linux admin still exists. Except that they are better paid than ever at cloud provider. What you're describing is more payroll flexibility than technical.

How is it not technical flexibility? No matter what talent you have on payroll, you can't spin up a whole datacenter's worth of machines in Europe in less than a day without a cloud provider.

And I mean less than a day from "I think we should operate in Europe" to "we are operating production workloads in Europe".

It sounds like you’re describing PaaS then.