>> If you buy a server and run a poorly architectured system on it you note that it does not perform and need to make changes. The examples you provide are not

>> If you buy a server and run a poorly architectured system on it you note that it does not perform and need to make changes. The examples you provide are not equivalent. It’s more like “we have a poorly architected software, so we had to buy 200 dedicated servers, because we didn’t know/couldn’t make it work on 10 of them”. On cloud you could simply update your software and then downscale. Of course you pay more for flexibility, but please stop with those strawmen.