> For my peace of mind, I chose a sane path - if the company as an entity decides to do AWS, I will do my best to meet its goals...

Amen to that.

Any kind of performance improvement, monitoring work I did for my applications has met with indifference or derision from managers. Because only if I had put efforts in cloud migration we could be "Horizontal Pod Scaling" for performance and fully managed Datadog console for monitoring the services.