[gaius]

as on-prem admins and engineers actively pushing back for fear of losing their jobs.

The funny thing is: those jobs already went years ago outsourced to “smart hands” in the DC. You still need people to plan and operate all this stuff. SAs who make the jump willingly have nothing to fear from cloud.

[Spooky23]

A lot of the folks in these roles have gotten lazy in legacy jobs. Lots of enterprise ops organizations are doing stuff with 10 people that could be done with 3.