[Saphyel]

This is so wrong.

Cloud is for DECLARE the setup, if you don't care or you don't know then avoid cloud.

On-premise you can find always dodgy scripts with no copy, no backups, some people praying everyday if the service restart he'll quit, or something working but you don't know why and the worst one, everyone afraid of update anything

[fancythat]

I don't know your experience, but mine is what I stated and I have been through two on-prem to cloud migration, one done with outside help and one without, one at Fortune 500 company with fairly, not Google scale, but large setup. General theme was that if can't get your things straight on-prem, you surely won't be able to manage cloud as it adds additional level of complexity on top of your usual setup.

[hooverd]

The cloud is that but with TerraForm, or god forbid, CloudFormation.