Key part is simple. For some apps I wondered why I had them in the "cloud" in the first place. And then I had to do something every month or two because I had to migrate to some stupid new version of an environment, do some DNS entries because the apps couldn't send mails anymore, configure the shitty IAM of the cloud provider I didn't need. Register my apps for some stupid database access.

Now I have apps where I need 15 minutes of maintenance a year, install and configuration takes 5 minutes.

Some cloud providers have amazing stuff, but I feel they all start to bloat and I don't have use cases that need whole clusters.