> The cloud is good when you have more money than time. Or skills, which is why I've noticed government departments are migrating everything to public cloud, n

> The cloud is good when you have more money than time. Or skills, which is why I've noticed government departments are migrating everything to public cloud, no matter how expensive it is. Fundamentally, they just cannot hire skilled staff, because they're legally prohibited from paying the going market rates. Those skilled staff also tend to stay away because they're put off by the extreme bureaucracy and generally unpleasant work environment. Anything that can be offloaded to a non-staff contract is pounced upon.