If you go all-in on cloud, you now need a team of cloud experts and you are beholden to whatever pricing strategy AWS/GCP/Azure deem appropriate in future.
It's also a terrible deal for the engineers who have to learn all this cloud stuff - instead of learning general computing, you learn how to work with vendor X. If they change things, go out of business, or get too expensive, that knowledge becomes useless.
If computing is a core part of your business, you should get good at it.
It's also a terrible deal for the engineers who have to learn all this cloud stuff - instead of learning general computing, you learn how to work with vendor X. If they change things, go out of business, or get too expensive, that knowledge becomes useless.
If computing is a core part of your business, you should get good at it.