Literally everywhere I go, and it's a lot of different organisations, there's people at every level and every job title unconditionally stating that the cloud is "cheaper".
They look at a cloud VM tier that is literally 3x more expensive per year than their current hardware and say that it is "cheaper" with a straight face.
They look at a SaaS that costs $1M per year while they're currently "burning" $200K in staffing costs to maintain an equivalent on-prem and say that they have to move to the cloud to save money.
They run VMs 24/7 with zero users and say that this is efficiency.
Nobody I've seen uses reserved instances or any similar cost-cutting measure, such as spot instances.
For fuck's sake, I just worked on a project to move users from one cloud service that cost $30/user/month to another cloud service that costs $100/user/month supposedly to... wait for... "save money".
But then don’t hire a bunch of old school net ops folks who got one certification and call themselves consultants when all they know how to do are lift and shifts.
But then don’t hire a bunch of old school net ops folks who got one certification and call themselves consultants when all they know how to do are lift and shifts.