I mean, most of the cloud is theater that your managers want to see. Setting up queues, distributed storage (s3 compatible), etc is incredibly easy these days.

I mean, most of the cloud is theater that your managers want to see. Setting up queues, distributed storage (s3 compatible), etc is incredibly easy these days. There’s very little reason for using the cloud, unless you really need the elasticity and I can only imagine a very few verticals that actually need it. Everyone else just “thinks” they need it, the reality is there elasticity requirements are on the order of 5%-10% of a baseline, which they’d save far more with bare metal all the way. Don’t get me wrong, serverless is pretty amazing until you get to a certain scale. The cloud really has that going for it.