Azure has a lot of features around this model.For instance, you can put a kind of azure agent on your on prem servers and then provision azure virtual machines

Azure has a lot of features around this model.For instance, you can put a kind of azure agent on your on prem servers and then provision azure virtual machines and managed databases onto them, or cloud active directory for on-prem desktops. I hadn't thought of them in the context of "hire cheaper non-cloud servers for your baseline load and storage".