[Silhouette]

I suspect much or all of this is true, including the observation about large companies with dinosaur IT. The comment I originally replied to was specifically talking about the environment in small companies, which is the environment I'm most familiar with, and my comments should be read in that context.

In my own businesses or the clients we work with, we too could add RDS quickly for something we were hosting on AWS. On the other hand, we could also spin up a pair of Postgres instances and configure streaming replication quickly if we were running on-prem or colo. Each approach has its pros and cons, and we'd look at each situation on its merits and choose accordingly. But IME, it's more like choosing from a restaurant menu depending on what looks most appealing at the time. The way some people talk about cloud, it's like they see it as choosing between a gourmet restaurant with a Michelin-starred team and the local burger van.