That's a nice statement sounding like straight from Amazon sales reps, and it can actually work for some companies, maybe. But for our bank (top 10 globally), t

That's a nice statement sounding like straight from Amazon sales reps, and it can actually work for some companies, maybe. But for our bank (top 10 globally), the only way to get even equal financially to our own farms is to have aggressive downtime every night that negatively affect productivity of our global teams. Pricing is really not that great if you deal in scale. You wanna push 1 evening a bit late to deliver something valuable for the project? Sorry, no can do. I don't even factor in horribly expensive migration projects that brought actually 0 added business value for the type of apps we use. We still have to keep our Network, Windows and Unix admins, various App support personnel etc., there is plenty of work for them with AWS. Not 1 single IT guy was made redundant. No cost savings, in contrary.