Big problem with on-prem is lead time on expansion. Can easily slow down expansion. Hard to project out. But if you have high utilization stable load, it can p

Big problem with on-prem is lead time on expansion. Can easily slow down expansion. Hard to project out. But if you have high utilization stable load, it can pay off to have on-prem. It's still a big risk, though. Cloud has a stable platform to build off. You can trust the 'interface' so to speak. Meanwhile you suddenly have to worry about driver incompatibilities, disk wear, stuff like that. We have cloud infra and on-prem infra. Big problem with cloud is performance for price. Even for small company with stable load, think about it. You have to have a guy aware of and thinking of the fact that the Mellanox SFP+ card you have has a driver regression on Linux 6.2. Maintenance nightmare. Better to have cloud. Clear interface to build against, and easy to replicate when problems occur. Sysadmins do stuff. You can't go sysadmin-free and expect efficient spending. Someone else just ends up sysadmin and frequently someone too high paid so you're losing money on the time they play that role.