There’s a mental shift that happens when you go cloud-first. At some point, you stop asking “should we use the cloud for this?” and start asking “why wouldn’t we?” The default flips. Infrastructure decisions that used to start with rack-and-stack now start with a region picker. I’ve watched this happen across dozens of customers. The transition isn’t instant. It follows a pattern: skepticism, experimentation, selective adoption, then a moment where the old way just feels wrong. Once a team has experienced spinning up environments in minutes instead of weeks, they can’t go back. The friction of the old model becomes intolerable. ...