The cloud wasn’t about cheap, it was about fast. If you’re VC funded, time is everything, and developer velocity above all else to hyperscale and exit. That time has passed (ZIRP), and the public cloud margin just doesn’t make sense when you can own and operate (their margin is your opportunity) on prem with similar cloud primitives around storage and compute.
Elasticity is a component, but has always been from a batch job bin packing scheduling perspective, not much new there. Before k8s and Nomad, there was Globus.org.
(Infra/DevOps in a previous life at a unicorn, large worker cluster for a physics experiment prior, etc; what is old is a new again, you’re just riding hype cycle waves from junior to retirement [mainframe->COTS on prem->cloud->on prem cloud, and so on])
Elasticity is a component, but has always been from a batch job bin packing scheduling perspective, not much new there. Before k8s and Nomad, there was Globus.org.
(Infra/DevOps in a previous life at a unicorn, large worker cluster for a physics experiment prior, etc; what is old is a new again, you’re just riding hype cycle waves from junior to retirement [mainframe->COTS on prem->cloud->on prem cloud, and so on])