The people required for the deployment will depend on the type of implementation and the size of the implementation. I have done it as an individual. I've done deployments with a team of ten engineers as well. Therefore, it depends on the scale of the application itself.

To deploy the lowest spectrum, it would take a few hours. The highest has some additional dependencies; it would take a span of five days or so.

Moreover, the maintenance is fairly minimal. Very rarely, if I have to change certain configurations or if I have to change certain OS parameters based on the applications, only then it requires maintenance. Otherwise, there are instances in which I have been running for the last three years and stable enough.

We use one person for the deployment of the solution.

An external firm has been contracted to provide the design and implementation of a DR solution which includes moving existing components to GCP.

They have little understanding of the existing environment and that lack of understanding has caused several roll backs on requirements to keep the operational cost manageable.