Cloud falls over if you have a lot of data egress. I don't work on those types of workloads (mainly in PCI and a little bit of HIPAA) so I stick to cloud for th

Cloud falls over if you have a lot of data egress. I don't work on those types of workloads (mainly in PCI and a little bit of HIPAA) so I stick to cloud for the sheer convenience factor (it's easier to fix a security group than having to drive to the office and plug in somewhere like I had to earlier today). Dealing with hardware has become a very specific skill set. I have it, but I don't enjoy it, so I don't look for it. I still have to build physical networks occasionally (ex: we are building a small manufacturing facility in a very specific niche that's required to be onsite for compliance reasons) but the scale is so small that I can get away with a lot of open source components (pfsense netgates are great) and not have to use things that are obnoxious to deal with (if I never have to deploy cisco anything ever again I won't be upset).