This is a good explanation of cloud issues for a company with resources and consistent workload... IaaS is not really competitive in this space, I don't think.

This is a good explanation of cloud issues for a company with resources and consistent workload... IaaS is not really competitive in this space, I don't think... If you have access to system admins, and have a consistent work load, you could avoid the cloud, trading the cloud premium for more employees and skills in your team. This is fine, if that is what you're team needs. The cloud is not a silver bullet that solves all companies infrastructure... But they have a very profitable space, especially in small businesses, or businesses that benefit from multiple data centers. AWS simply made it easy to scale up and down, as well as scale around the world... if you don't need to dynamically scale or easy access to multiple data centers, the cloud begins to lose it's best (cost-effective) competitive edge to self hosting... Though at the micro scale, the cloud can do dead simple basics for free -- or near enough (e.g. static websites), which is fun for personal projects