> why use a cloud provider at all? Cost+speed of scalability, and managed services. If you rarely need to scale, your workloads are all predictable, and you do

> why use a cloud provider at all? Cost+speed of scalability, and managed services. If you rarely need to scale, your workloads are all predictable, and you don't need managed services/support, you should just buy some VPSes or dedicated boxes.