"Switching from OpenSearch to running elastic search ourselves did require some initial setup, but we're not changing the size of the team at all in the longterm to accommodate for this switch. Because running things on premise is not a materially different scope of work from running it in the cloud. That's the whole premise behind our overall cloud exit: The team it takes to run our scale of operations in the cloud wasn't any less than what it takes to run that same scale on our own hardware."
and thats the rub... in generic enterprise land everyone has there own ES cluster multiregion to support 100GB of data and 50 rds dbs that could run one instance... what even is a DBA in today's world?