The cloud became the new hot thing and lots and lots of people, sites, enterprises jumped on board. Need to quickly deploy code without any understanding of how

The cloud became the new hot thing and lots and lots of people, sites, enterprises jumped on board. Need to quickly deploy code without any understanding of how infrastructure works? Great, the cloud solves your problem! Who needs experienced infrastructure people anyway? Need to quickly respond to a spike in traffic? Great, the cloud solves your problem! Need guaranteed SLAs, reliable CPU, memory and disk performance? Yeah good luck with that. The price, at any sort of reasonable scale, of the cloud is almost always more expensive than doing it yourself (VMs). Cloud computing is completely bad but it's not the panacea that too many people make it out to be.