[baroomba]

I think cloud's way harder than managing actual hardware (and/or your own VMs and such on actual hardware, or even traditional VMs on someone else's hardware) since once you're beyond the trivial it quickly becomes a superset of traditional admin knowledge, not a replacement—you end up having to know how to do things the old way to understand WTF the cloud is doing and troubleshoot issues, or to integrate or transition some older system, or whatever.

And then of course every "cloud" is full of about a billion hidden gotchas ("well the marketing page says that'll work, but on Tuesdays in February it won't, so use this instead, but only if you're writing your logic in JavaScript because the tools for the other allegedly-supported SDKs are broken in weird ways half the time, so instead use this other thing, unless you're a Libra, then...") none of which knowledge transfers between "clouds", and each has a pile of dumb names to memorize and a ton of other per se useless, but necessary, knowledge you've gotta pick up, just to rub salt in the wound.