Anyone who didn’t see that coming, I have a bridge to sell to them.
Cloud doesn’t solve problems, it changes them.
Omg, I got a reputation as being anti progressive because I kept telling the boss that maybe we shouldn’t go all in with cloud. Being in security, I was worried about putting all our shit on the internet and hoping it would be safe. Given the wildly primitive tools we had to see what was happening, I felt my caution was justified.
Nope, shut up you Luddite, we will save big money and move faster.
Now we save money by paying Microsoft an arm and a leg every month for their shitty services. We also have to pay cloudflare another ransom to add the protection that Microsoft can’t. We also pay Wiz buttloads of money to make sure that the first two things are working right.
Then someone who doesn’t like the security controls just creates a new tenant and puts a mountain of exposed PII there to get stolen and random’d.
The cloud is the best.
Picking up and moving as-is to cloud will cost more. Going to Azure PAAS won’t save you any appreciable money because whatever opex you save will be eaten by licensing.
Switching your workload to infrastructure as code and going all in on CI/CD and serverless will, if you’re any decent sized shop, save you an absolute shit-ton of money. You can reduce headcount and reduce capex and opex by orders of magnitude while delivering much more stable and reliable products to your customers.