Cloud costs way way more compared to on-prem solution for my company. We need random access to about 50TB of files, and quite a decent number of VMs. For stor

Cloud costs way way more compared to on-prem solution for my company. We need random access to about 50TB of files, and quite a decent number of VMs. For storage on-perm vs cloud: buy was cheaper to have after 3(!) months. For VMs(some of them could be containerized though): 1 year It was cheaper to buy second-hand decent server, slap SSDs and just install a decent hypervisor. Those costs also include: server room, power usage, admins etc. We do use cloud backups for the most important stuff. Cloud is cheaper if your business is a something that is user-based - as in you might need to scale it, hard. If you aren't doing anything like that it is absurdly expensive.