> Truer words have never been spoken
That might be why uninformed people do it. But the real cost of managing your own hardware is devops, which doesn’t actually go away on the cloud.
Not using multi-cloud or not having a super trivial way to switch is just negligence and wouldn’t be tolerated in any large businesses.
Somebody else said it best. People go to the cloud not to escape the hardware, it is to escape all the people who administrate the hardware. Truer words have never been spoken. Escaping all the gatekeepers of traditional setups adds significant value to a company.