[hnlmorg]

The problem here is “cloud” can mean different things.

If you’re taking about virtual machines running in a classical networking configuration then you’re not really leveraging “the cloud” — all you’ve done is shifted the location of your CPUs.

However if you’re using things like serverless, managed databases, SaaS, then most of the problems in the second list are either solved or much easier to solve in the cloud.

The problem with “the cloud” is you either need highly variable on-demand compute requirements or a complete re-architecture of your applications for cloud computing to make sense. And this is something that so many organisations miss.

I’ve lost count of the number of people who have tried to replicate their on-prem experience to cloud deployments and then came to the same conclusions as yourself. But that’s a little like trying to row a boat on land and then saying roads are a rubbish way to filter traffic. You just have to approach roads and rivers (or cloud and on-prem) deployments with a different mindset because they solve different problems.

[sn0wf1re]

Yeah, but you still need alerts to see if your lambda breaks. But yes, the managed solutions save a lot of time and effort.

[hnlmorg]

Absolutely. Observability is paramount regardless of where and how your application runs.