I’m guess you have a fully staffed infrastructure team team, so the reason that has yet to be explained is that they want to downsize that team.

We use cloud services because we have never had a fully staffed infrastructure team.

Some of this is just because some of these frameworks and technologies have been around for a while and they iterate frequently. I see a ton of Azure content that is obsolete after only a few years.

Just finished book 10/10 in Tchaikovsky’s “Shadows of the Apt” series. I highly recommend it.

For me it was an interesting blend of the political/military games of Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and the intersection of magic and technology in Sanderson’s Cosmere.

Tchaikovsky’s most well known for Children of Time but although I like the third book in that series a lot the first two were a little meh for me. I liked the concepts and world building but the perspectives of octopi and spiders was kind of a drag for me. Somehow I liked the raven stuff though.

I would also recommend Tchaikovsky’s The Final Architecture series if you’re into the sci-fi more than the fantasy aspects.