I disagree that cloud would be cheaper on average. Unless the burstiness is very, very bursty. And even in that case, you are going to need a lot of special stu

I disagree that cloud would be cheaper on average. Unless the burstiness is very, very bursty. And even in that case, you are going to need a lot of special stuff in place in the cloud to handle huge bursts since few cloud service actually scale automatically.