I think the argument that Convox is a good fit for AWS-only shops has a lot of merit. Specialising comes with different benefits from generality.
I and many others have been saying for a long time that CF is hard to approach due to its completeness and the all-or-nothing power of BOSH. PCFDev is chipping away at some of it; the bosh-boatloader[0] project should take away a lot of the remaining "this is too hard to install" pain.
That said, yes, you can run very large installations of CF with small teams. The whole of Pivotal Web Services is run by 2 shifts of the Cloudops team, I think 2-4 pairs each. What makes that possible is BOSH, which solves the everliving daylights out of deploying and repairing software on an IaaS.
I and many others have been saying for a long time that CF is hard to approach due to its completeness and the all-or-nothing power of BOSH. PCFDev is chipping away at some of it; the bosh-boatloader[0] project should take away a lot of the remaining "this is too hard to install" pain.
That said, yes, you can run very large installations of CF with small teams. The whole of Pivotal Web Services is run by 2 shifts of the Cloudops team, I think 2-4 pairs each. What makes that possible is BOSH, which solves the everliving daylights out of deploying and repairing software on an IaaS.
And we have some more cool stuff coming :)
[0] https://github.com/pivotal-cf-experimental/bosh-bootloader