Very few workloads need to scale out past the limits of any reasonable cloud provider. Properly built clouds can give you IO faster then a dedicated server, an

Very few workloads need to scale out past the limits of any reasonable cloud provider. Properly built clouds can give you IO faster then a dedicated server, and give you CPUS on demand that far exceed what you would otherwise afford (due to you only needing it occasionally). And any reasonable cloud provider can discount things such that is unreasonable for you to move off. They have a much lower bottom line then a comparable dedicated server provider. Is interesting that this doesn't seem to be the case currently.