>>I see everybody around me moving to cloud, without really good explanation why. In that case you certainly aren't looking very hard for that explanation. Th

>>I see everybody around me moving to cloud, without really good explanation why. In that case you certainly aren't looking very hard for that explanation. The rationale of moving to "the cloud" is crisp and very well-defined, to the point where even AWS makes it their point to explain in very clear terms in their Architecting With AWS courses. Basically it's all about being able to scale without bothering with procurement, not having to manage everything down to power bills and rentals, turning big capex into small opex, and being able to deploy globally and reliably with a click of a button. That, however, comes at a steep cost. The more serverless you get, the higher the price tag. Also, beyond a certain scale you're better off going back to managing your own infrastructure. > Only reasonable thing I can see as an pattern is that cloud experience on top of data things gets paid 30% more. It made me consider cloud a lot. People with cloud experience are paid more because they can deliver more value. A random guy with, say, experience in EC2 and CloudFormation and CloudWatch, can single-handedly put together a robust fault-tolerant webservice that's deployed globally and automatically scales to meet any demand fluctuation.