Exactly. Of course GCP/Azure/AWS have great development kits, of course they make it easy to get a Docker application running for the first time within 1 minute. That is the sales model.
However, to be cost effective, you need to adapt your application to be more cloud native using their propietary SDKs. Azure Functions/Lambdna, CosmosDB, Blob Storage/S3, etc. The application gets cheaper, but you've now also bought yourself into the ecosystem and you're never migrating anywhere else.
And now the pricing increases. Or the cloud provider decides you shouldn't be a client anymore. Too bad. No easy way back.
There is still not much wrong with a webapp on a VM. You still need sysops, except classic sysops instead of cloud certified sysops.
However, to be cost effective, you need to adapt your application to be more cloud native using their propietary SDKs. Azure Functions/Lambdna, CosmosDB, Blob Storage/S3, etc. The application gets cheaper, but you've now also bought yourself into the ecosystem and you're never migrating anywhere else.
And now the pricing increases. Or the cloud provider decides you shouldn't be a client anymore. Too bad. No easy way back.
There is still not much wrong with a webapp on a VM. You still need sysops, except classic sysops instead of cloud certified sysops.