>Surely the cloud was about handing off to this magical thing somewhere far away and letting it handle the details. One of those details that is frequently ign

>Surely the cloud was about handing off to this magical thing somewhere far away and letting it handle the details. One of those details that is frequently ignored on the engineering side: capex. Cloud effectively outsources capital expense management. For smaller shops this may be insignificant, but when you have (aging) datacenters on multiple continents it becomes a larger factor.