[ljm]

The cloud is so expensive for most companies that I think that a solution architect's insistence on setting up in the cloud by default is actually a corporate welfare program where VC funds are redirected to Amazon and Google.

That said, it's still not as trivial as using managed SaaS but it's still easier than ever to basically spin up your own cloud of sorts, using the wealth of open source tech out there. K3S on Hetzner can do a pretty solid job for cheap. In that sense, the ecosystem around running your own cloud is only improving.