alt Hacker News> But the curious early adopters were the ones best positioned to be leading the charge on "cloud migration" when the business finally pulled the trigger.
lol no. There's nothing actually different about managing VMs in EC2 versus managing physical servers in a datacenter. It's all the same skills, and anyone who is competent in one can pick up the other with zero adjustment.
Maybe in a greenfield environment, but this I disagree with your assessment in an enterprise setting. Have you worked with orgs that have on-prem + cloud and are migrating? It is a massive pain and regardless of whether it's easy, people and orgs don't want to do it.