Why is it better to be locked into your own company’s IT department rather than AWS? I would argue AWS gives a better ROI than 95% of corporate IT departments, and generally less hostile to boot.
One hopes you're not arguing that companies shouldn't bother trying to figure out if they're in the 95% or the 5%.
No, it wouldn’t make sense for me to make the 95/5 distinction only to prescribe a 100/0 response. My post was a call for sober judgment, which is admittedly not very popular here.
Making up opinions and then arguing against them is not popular here.
No straw men here Greg. Looks like you’ve confused this thread with another.
Many people did not realize that IT infrastructure is a utility, it should not be owned all the time by most of the companies but purchased when needed. AWS couldn’t exist if it wasn’t better than on-prem IT. How better is defined is different case by case. Usually it includes TCO, ROI, turn around time, efficiency in terms of capacity management and fee more. These are the things many small companies do not have to deal with or easily solved. Yet there are many companies choosing AWS to solve these problems for them. In my experience AWS really start to make sense if you are spending more than 100.000 / month on infrastructure.