“Lift and shift” is always more expensive. That is, you will always pay more for cloud servers than you will for on-prem at a certain level of scale. Lift and

“Lift and shift” is always more expensive. That is, you will always pay more for cloud servers than you will for on-prem at a certain level of scale. Lift and shift is not really getting the cost benefit of cloud though. As applications get re-architected with serverless technologies like lambda, costs are optimized. The exact amount of resources will pop in and out of existence for the exact amount of time they’re needed.