I think this guy is very optimistic on cloud if he thinks in ten years people will still view it as the right way to go. A bunch of monopolies are using various levers to push companies to shift to a model with uncapped spending (literally), with a huge extra profit margin. Cloud has benefits for two narrow segments of business: Rapidly scaling new companies and extremely globalized companies, and makes basically no sense for anyone else.
As regulations catch up, national borders continue to impact how businesses operate across networks, etc., I doubt the cloud model will still look good in ten years. Half the benefit of the cloud is just being... newer. Interfaces are often more modern simply because, well, the Windows Server team all started working on Azure instead. A decade from now, people will look at the pains and problems of working with AWS and Azure the way people look at dealing with Windows Server and hardware maintenance today: Looking a little rough.
As regulations catch up, national borders continue to impact how businesses operate across networks, etc., I doubt the cloud model will still look good in ten years. Half the benefit of the cloud is just being... newer. Interfaces are often more modern simply because, well, the Windows Server team all started working on Azure instead. A decade from now, people will look at the pains and problems of working with AWS and Azure the way people look at dealing with Windows Server and hardware maintenance today: Looking a little rough.