You have a good point. I think for small enough workloads self managing instances on-prem is more cost-effective. There is a simplicity gain in being able to sc

You have a good point. I think for small enough workloads self managing instances on-prem is more cost-effective. There is a simplicity gain in being able to scale up and scale down instances in the cloud but may not make sense if you can self-manage without too much work.