Agreed. I work as a cloud engineer. I am very pro cloud & work primarily out of it. However, I am right now trying to tell our execs not to move the databases to the cloud with the "plans" the DB leadership concocted.

Their database team is not cloud at all and don't have the technical capabilities' to rearchitect the SQL servers in a scalable PaaS services yet. Their servers are end of life and they must decide either to refresh or move to the cloud. They had years to prepare for this but they didn't train their team. Now to save face they think moving the servers to the cloud is good enough and don't want to make changes to the databases to fit in any other model. That is a technical & financial debt nightmare waiting to happen. I cant wait to drop the numbers on them this week to show them the reality, lol.

There is savings from the cloud depending on which type of service you use(PaaS being the biggest cost saver), reliability, scalability linked to demand, labor cost since less can do more and of course the robust automation services. But any org that does not embrace the features of the cloud beyond lift and shift IaaS model are gearing themselves up to a financial mess.