The flexibility and scalability of the cloud comes at a cost. Scientific, static and non web but IO heavy workloads are almost always better off run on-prem or

The flexibility and scalability of the cloud comes at a cost. Scientific, static and non web but IO heavy workloads are almost always better off run on-prem or in a co-located data centre with servers paid up front. As is most things in businesses, it’s a trade-off one needs to think about and make. The smart ones will come out ahead, and those that blindly follow FAANG and drink their kool-aid may or may not come ahead, albeit with a heavy hit to their(or their VC’s) pocket. If you’re a startup that simply have a bunch of web apps and APIs where uptime and network are your major costs, on-prem is only going to become a worthless headache. A good Systems Engineer should help to figure out such choices. Anybody need one?