This depends so much on your usecases. In our company it certainly is not cheaper. But what they do is ridiculous. They just moved from physical datacenters to

This depends so much on your usecases. In our company it certainly is not cheaper. But what they do is ridiculous. They just moved from physical datacenters to AWS instances. Every "server" instance is running 24/7 independent of load, and you have to fill in an excel of 10 tabs to get permission to fire up an instance. In fact, the only thing they changed is the physical rack location tab to an AWS zone one :P So now we are "in the cloud" but we have almost none of the benefits said cloud offers. And we're using it in such an inefficient way that we're wasting money by the millions. And we kept all the internal overhead we already had when we managed the datacenters itself (that's what that excel is for). Once we actually start dynamically spinning up instances based on load and shutting them down when not needed, then yeah I could see it being cheaper than having a bunch of metal in a rack somewhere. But I guess we won't get there in the next 10 years or so. We'll probably be all-in on cloud by the time everyone has already gone on to edge computing or whatever the next big thing is, lol.