If you are cloud only company then for sure it is just easier but still it wont be cheaper just more convenient to use. If data science team is very big probab

If you are cloud only company then for sure it is just easier but still it wont be cheaper just more convenient to use. If data science team is very big probably "best" solution without unlimited money is just to run local and go cloud [premium] if you dont have free resources for your teams (It was the case when i was working in pretty big EU bank but it wasn't "true" Deep learning yet [about 4-5 years ago]).