I agree with the other commenters that overprovisioning (or underprovisioning) is a concern with the cloud, but the public cloud has long been more secure than

I agree with the other commenters that overprovisioning (or underprovisioning) is a concern with the cloud, but the public cloud has long been more secure than on-prem data centers [1], [2], [3]. As for the cost, Reserved Instances can dramatically reduce your spend, with the caveat that you can get locked in 1 or 3 years. My company, Usage.AI, built a platform to solve this problem by automatically buying and selling Reserved Instances to get the price and flexibility benefits in one [4]. [1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3010006/sorry-it-the-public-cloud-is-more-secure-than-your-data-center.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/3010006/sorry-it-the-publi... [2] https://blogs.oracle.com/cloudsecurity/post/7-reasons-why-the-cloud-is-more-secure https://blogs.oracle.com/cloudsecurity/post/7-reasons-why-th... [3] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/enterprises-trust-cloud-security https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/ent... [4] http://usage.ai http://usage.ai