Yup! Exact reason I saw companies migrate to AWS. Basically incompetent sysadmins who could barely manage a toaster let alone a server rack. I have this memory of one "sysadmin" who was tasked with expanding the server farm, asking me for help for what to order from Amazon.

I think it's the common reason why companies end up outsourcing technical work, whether it's to cloud or consulting companies or whatever. Leadership hasn't built a strong engineering culture (which includes hiring bar, how you promo people, etc.). This means companies are forced to spend 100x by outsourcing everything to get anything working, and AWS is one convenient way for that.