No, cloud isnt bad. However you have to really know what you are buying. Some stuff; cloud computing is exceptional. Want to prototype a full deployment? wan

No, cloud isnt bad. However you have to really know what you are buying. Some stuff; cloud computing is exceptional. Want to prototype a full deployment? want to get it into production? The defaults are pretty good (in GCP at least) and can lead you to a highly reliable system pretty easily. However. On the whole cloud is anywhere from 5-11x the cost on paper. Operationally it might save you half the time assuming you have a good dedicated hosting provider nearby- and you don’t need to reinvent some primitives such as blob storage. Theres a lot of discussion surrounding what I refer to as “cloud myths”. In every thread where cloud is mentioned someone will say one of the following: * Headcount savings * competence savings * near-infinite scalability. Unfortunately you need specific competences for cloud (most effort is on the OS level anyway even with colo so all you have done is add the burden of abstraction and it is a lot of abstraction), headcounts are comparable too- especially when you talk about finops, devops (terraform etc). Same too for infinite scale. I have looked down the barrel at how scalable cloud is- unless you're giving a couple months heads up, if your compute use is high you can easily exhaust a region or zone. If you are happy to spend 5x more to get where you're going faster then cloud is pretty great. But my advice is to have a plan to migrate to something cheaper once you figure out your baseline.