You're going a step further in the case of cloud though.

Before you'd at least hire the sysadmins. Now you rely on probably dirt cheap offshore consulting.

It's just more outsourcing. It comes with scale and as cancer it is just a reality. Eventually it will have to be burned down.

They won’t admit it, but many companies move to the cloud not only because they don’t want to deal with administering servers but also because they don’t want to deal with server administrators.

It’s not like on prem server administrators have a great track record when it comes to security.