I work at a big enterprise saas company that's moving a couple billion dollars worth of hardware into cloud services, the price difference is wild. Original uno

I work at a big enterprise saas company that's moving a couple billion dollars worth of hardware into cloud services, the price difference is wild. Original unoptimized costs were 8x, dropping to 6x in our first round of optimizations. Even the rosiest middle management protections put eventual costs at 2x owning the hardware. Add to that we threw out plans to do things like virtualization on our owned hardware, and that engineering headcount has consistently grown faster than revenue, it's not clear there are any savings to be had there at our scale.