Two startups at global scale without DevOps

Leonardo.AI and Relevance AI — two Australian AI-native startups — operate at global scale (processing millions of images daily and running autonomous agents across time zones, respectively) without dedicated DevOps or infrastructure teams, sharing an operational model built on managed platform infrastructure. This approach is driven by the scarcity and high cost of infrastructure talent in APAC (where a single DevOps engineer costs $150K+, and 60–80% of organizations report difficulty filling IT roles), pushing startups to deploy on platforms that handle scaling and operations automatically. Vercel abstracts away provisioning, scaling, and observability, enabling global scale to happen automatically — even during high-traffic periods — without manual intervention, freeing engineers to focus on product development.

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