Much of my work at Red Hat revolves around the RHEL experience in public clouds. I thrive on input from customers, partners, and coworkers about how they consume public clouds and why they made decisions to deploy there. Throughout this process, I run into some wild misconceptions about public clouds and what makes them useful. One that I hear most often is: Businesses are moving to the cloud to reduce cost and improve efficiency. It’s mainly just a purchasing exercise. This couldn’t be f...