Ask HN: Where are the rolling heads of cloud adoption?

OK - I admit: this is a weird one. Whenever people talk about moving to the cloud to reduce costs it's never about the hardware. The song goes: "You don't need people to manage the systems, the patching, the security - those are the real savings!"

But then I don't see the waves of people being fired - sysadmins and DBAs - since "you don't need them anymore".

I know the problem is more subtle that this - IE: we would need to hire "more" - but for me the question remains: has anyone experienced a case where moving to the cloud actually resulted in IT layoffs?

Edit: cleaned up the syntax a bit