Your job is to figure out what they actually need even if they don't understand it?
Seems pretty par the course.
There are dozens of reasons to migrate to the cloud. Do they apply to everyone? No. Are they always worth the cost? No. But the whole "cloud vs not cloud" argument that happened, got settled ("cloud"), and is now being restarted by the DHH-like is not data-driven and full of exaggerations and fear-mongering from both sides.
Then you add on top of that that the main product of moving to the cloud is "operations" which is typically measured in "hours of human capital being impacted outside of core working hours". When the market is booming, tech humans are expensive and fickle, and don't want to undertake more operations than they should have to, and companies are forced to pay cloud providers.
But in today's 2023 climate, any company looking around to decide how much to spend on cloud just says "Why would we pay for something when we can just ask our engineers to work more hours, and invite them to quit if they don't like it, oh wait nobody else is hiring anyway"
No cost calculator of $$$ saved considers that overtime is free in our industry.
tl;dr the cloud backlash is overblown, more companies/businesses would benefit from cloud than not.
The conversation went as below.
- Does your app work fine?
- Yes.
- Do you have any problems?
- No.
- Why do you want to migrate then?
- Silence.