I absolutely agree, but oftentimes small cost optimisations are done by teams without thinking about how this impacts the speed with which they can build their

I absolutely agree, but oftentimes small cost optimisations are done by teams without thinking about how this impacts the speed with which they can build their business. The cloud is not the definitive answer for all teams, but leaving all the power cloud computing gives for a little cheaper hosting at the beginning of a project seems wrong to me.