For sure, there are a lot of factors to consider here. For heavy workloads where you need solid I/O, the cost for the same performance on baremetal vs VMs on cl

For sure, there are a lot of factors to consider here. For heavy workloads where you need solid I/O, the cost for the same performance on baremetal vs VMs on cloud can be >4x so you could even afford to have a duplicate setup on another network for redundancy and still be saving.