If they moved everything to AWS it still wouldn't have produced the report that the company needed.

We're going through this right now. Migrating stuff to the cloud, then right before we turn off the old hardware we find out that there is still something super-important that didn't get included in the list of things to migrate. This is a people problem and nothing else.

I was told no one was ever fired for buying IBM

Might have been told to use it .