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So, you changed one cloud provider to another...
But let me rephrase: cloud can be significantly cheaper - if you know what you're doing and what you're putting on the cloud.
I've been to data centres that cost as much as a decade of cloud hosting the service they were supporting (and that's without operational costs).
Cloud is especially great for small businesses where you have two alternative options: either build your own data centre which you absolutely cannot afford (or risk making it barely operational and unreliable) or host your company at someone else's DC - which is what cloud is, but worse (because nobody can set up so much resiliency and have so many DC techs/admins as Microsoft or Amazon).
There absolutely are situations where self-hosting is preferable, and even cheaper, but wondering "why do we place so much reliance" on cloud service providers just shows that people have no clue what cloud actually offers.