Yup, I worked for a company that moved everything from colo to AWS. Not only did the annual tech costs increase about 10x (even with all the AWS migration credi

Yup, I worked for a company that moved everything from colo to AWS. Not only did the annual tech costs increase about 10x (even with all the AWS migration credit funny math), but they ended up with double the number of engineers to look after it. Admittedly this was hopefully only going to apply for a few years until they finished rearchitecting everything, but I doubt it would ever reduce back down to anywhere near the original costs. The equation is also mirrored for something that started and grew on AWS though - going to bare metal means building up tooling and processes you didn't have before. The transition will be expensive in either direction.