[dilyevsky]

> Once you use any cloud provider as a glorified colo without changing any of your processes you’re already spending more than a colo and not getting any of the benefits of managed services.

So you’re saying running multi regional, burstable (metered by minutes or even seconds) VMs with redundant power and networking and without having to hire a bunch of maintenance staff is not one of the benefits? Imho it’s perfectly economical at small to medium scale.

> Have you ever budgeted a project plan involving a large migration

I’m doing one right about now. If you design your stack to be multi-regional from the get go and dont get yourself into aforementioned cloudlock it’s a simple matter of bringing up new kubernetes clusters in a new cloud region and possibly setting up some peering.