Haha, hey, good to hear from you!<p>My take is that people are doing it piecemeal. The datacenter guys got a mandate to make everything cloudy because of the obvious benefits (scale, provisioning time, lower TCO), but the data &#x2F; application teams had already invested in something like HANA. If you can just forklift everything up to the cloud, there&#x27;s at least the theory that you can start to peel off bits as they need to and integrate further with Amazon. If you&#x27;re starting a streaming ingest process, it&#x27;s appealing to forklift your existing batch ingest, then use Amazon&#x27;s services to build the new one. Similar with DB upgrades (RDS), backups (S3 &#x2F; glacier), or anything else that has a dedicated service. But the first thing to do is get the core application running so you&#x27;re not trying to patch around some unholy hybrid cloud mess.