God no. Don’t tell him this. There are already too many sysadmins that take the on prem, non automated, lift and shift mentality to the cloud, and leave in their wake an infrastructure that costs more than if they had just used bare metal at s colo.

If you’re hosting a bunch of VMs “in the cloud” and doing the same stuff you did on prem you’ve just gotten the worse of both worlds - you’re spending more and not getting any of the benefits of letting your cloud vendor do any of the “undifferentiated heavy lifting”.

My experience with “cloud architects” who don’t know anything about development is that they are actually a liability.