While that might be true on paper, or at the bottom of your cloud bills, it’s actually less about the cost of the cloud and more about the inefficiencies it reveals to you.
Instead of hiding under shared data centre costs or deferred hardware refresh budgets, the cloud surfaces every workload, every idle resource and every architectural decision in plain sight, with a monetary value attached to them.The ‘lift-and-shift’ trap
Lift-and-shift is very much a viable solution for many organisations moving into the cloud and is often the only viable first step, so it is important to note that the concept itself isn’t the trap.when the workloads have been shifted. The reality is that the approach without further modernisation leads to ballooning costs and mounting technical debt, because the workloads aren’t optimised to run efficiently on an infinitely scalable modern infrastructure.
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