Cloud is over-rated. The costs arbitrage emanating from cloud adoption is relevant only for early stages of a Company. If a Company foresees itself to be around for a fairly long period of time, mainframes make more sense. Until such time companies like AWS; GCP & Azure stop thinking of cloud as a cash-cow machine, it just does not make sense to adopt cloud for the long term. If cloud adoption has to improve, companies (such as AWS; GCP; etc.,) need to democratize cloud and make it available for everyone. It will pave way for so many better & bigger things. They are lacking the bigger picture. The real good ending to this movie is AGI. Grounded & cultured AGI. Not a hallucinating one. That will be path-breaking. Predicting retail buying pattern is passe. Can you predict when will Aswini buy next and what ?