I'm in my 40s, full disclosure I've never worked in devops 'officially' but have hosted many personal and commercial projects, worked as a developer and later p

I'm in my 40s, full disclosure I've never worked in devops 'officially' but have hosted many personal and commercial projects, worked as a developer and later product manager. I have run my own small businesses as well as working for various corps. In defence of cloud I will say that back in mid 2000s I did have to buy and rack my own servers, this was a pain in the ass and I don't want to ever see and especially hear the inside of a datacenter again. I'll also say that a lot of things are much easier and safer today, the industry has developed a lot of process and tooling. So the issue isn't necessarily "cloud" but how large cloud vendors have strategised in their own best interests to do vendor lock-in, especially on the lower end of startups that are obviously open to shipping now and paying later, and how we have all lapped that up because they do give generous free-tiers and they do solve some real problems.