> they factor in the cost of the engineering talent necessary You need to do that for cloud as well. The assumption that you can just get the developers to spi

> they factor in the cost of the engineering talent necessary You need to do that for cloud as well. The assumption that you can just get the developers to spin up what they need doesn't work. You need a team of "cloud engineers" if you don't want your cloud bill to go crazy. I know a few people that does AWS for clients, they basically spend all their time maintaining, upgrading and reworking things to reduce the cost. In one example, when AWS changed their IPv4 pricing, one of the went in an managed to remove 90% of their public IPv4 usage. You need to say on top of the cloud platforms, ensuring that costs stay low is a full time job.