If you have competent tech staff you can inhouse it on any of a dozen hypervisors for roughly the capital cost you would spend in 6 months on cloud. Every yea

If you have competent tech staff you can inhouse it on any of a dozen hypervisors for roughly the capital cost you would spend in 6 months on cloud. Every year on the cloud can roughly cover the expense for double that capacity deployed on prem. Complaints of "operational costs" generally assume a woefully incompetent staff.