I’ve been preaching the cloud sucks for these reasons.
Companies have just thought someone else doing the technical work was better. For some, that’s true. For large scale companies, it is not.
There’s also the risk factor, based on the nature of the service. It will always be cheaper to make pharmaceuticals in China, but that doesn’t mean we should continue such dependency. It’s fine for Boeing or GM to rely on AWS, but not a conservative social media company like Parler.
Of course, now we will...