Not sure how an MBA helps here, but if all you are doing is straight compute, then yes, cloud is a waste of money. The benefit of cloud comes when you have a b

Not sure how an MBA helps here, but if all you are doing is straight compute, then yes, cloud is a waste of money. The benefit of cloud comes when you have a bunch of different teams with different optimal solutions such as nosql, sql, queue services, data processing pipelines, data warehouses, object storage, CDNs...