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In some sense this is a good problem to have. With on-prem you used to have very limited resources to start with, so cost efficiency is a baked-in requirement. With cloud providers you seem to have limitless resources and the new problem of cost optimization arises.

Admittedly there’s difference between optimizing fully-controlled resources and cloud provider managed services. For one, low visibility into cloud service internals makes such optimization harder.