parent still has a very strong point considering that a drop in growth (not revenue) quickly translates in projects / features being cancelled. That's a good thing to FailFast from a start-up pov but when me as a start-up needs to make a bet about building on top of certain features this adds to my cost/benefit calculation when deciding if I want to jump on new features (device-shadows, digital-twins, or whatever else is the latest innovation the cloud announces).
From that pov I expect my platform to behave like a utility (never change or only change with strict backward compatibility). That level of control simply is against the business model of the cloud.
But there are so many degrees of ratcheting back cloud costs before we get back to self-hosted.
Sure, companies are probably less interested in wacky new cloud features then they were before, but that means going back to basics like EC2 and RDS, which do function like utilities, not going back to their own data centers.
