The cloud costs really are between "unreasonable" and "very unreasonable". The only time when it gets cheaper is if workload would be so spiky we coul'dve turne

The cloud costs really are between "unreasonable" and "very unreasonable". The only time when it gets cheaper is if workload would be so spiky we coul'dve turned most of it off for 2/3 of the day but most of what we have is many smaller projects that don't even have enough traffic to even need scaling and the big ones, well, can't scale database size down off-peak... Over last ~6 years we did "is it worth going to cloud" calculation few times and it was always ridiculously more expensive.