I've had the opposite experience where others didn't see the cost savings, and also performance improvements, as a benefit. Some people get "scared" when you do

I've had the opposite experience where others didn't see the cost savings, and also performance improvements, as a benefit. Some people get "scared" when you don't put things in the cloud. Meanwhile a last gen server with new SSDs running your applications on bare metal can outperform most EC2 instances and whatever networking cross connects at your local DC are available will get you higher bandwidth, lower latency, and more throughput for way less than AWS.