> Decision is made, implementation and vendor selection is the hard part. >The cloud vendors are in fact already offering to take on a lot of this work of trans

> Decision is made, implementation and vendor selection is the hard part. >The cloud vendors are in fact already offering to take on a lot of this work of transitioning, which I am avoiding to avoid lock in at all costs. This gives you a distinct advantage, in that you could, subsequently, move back and be your own "private cloud" vendor for even further cost savings. > We are not FAANG and not located in cool locales so harder to attract great talent. You may find that becomes less true as housing prices in cool locales continue to rise. Alternatively, you could open offices in those locales, since, if your infrastructure is going to be cloud-based (public, private, or hybrid), it's less important that the staff be co-located with it. There's also the notion of a remote-first engineering culture that I'm sure you can find plenty of evangelism for, just by searching.