Comment by taylodl

That's a good point about cloud services being retail. My company gets a very large discount from one of the most well-known cloud providers. This is available to everybody - typically if you commit to 12 months of a minimum usage then you can get substantial discounts. What I know is so far everything we've migrated to the cloud has resulted in significantly reduced total costs, increased reliability, improved scalability, and is easier to enhance and remediate. Faster, cheaper, better - that's been a huge win for us!