Careful with blanket statements like these. Run a system with high sustained compute and data egress; even when accounting for engineer time (and people often neglect to account for time spent administering cloud infra), the cloud markup is huge. While it works for some companies, cloud is not universally cheaper.
This is the sentiment i share, which i think it's important to hammer down the point that it's the fault the cloud providers marketing themselves to be suitable for everyone. Because if they don't get as much money as possible then they don't see a purpose.
