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For us, our partners and mutual clients, minimizing the cost of provisioning IT services is something like priority # 4 or 5. Security, correctness, compliance

For us, our partners and mutual clients, minimizing the cost of provisioning IT services is something like priority # 4 or 5. Security, correctness, compliance, performance and availability are gonna be far more important to the business. As long as the cost isn't absolutely insane no one is going to blink. Zero stakeholders care that we can do it marginally cheaper with a nerd sniper rifle.

vidarh 3y ago
And that's a valid choice to make when your margins are significant enough to let you afford not to spend effort cutting hosting costs. I've opted for cloud hosting many places for that reason myself as well. In fact, my current job involves a 100% cloud based setup, and it's a fine choice in this instance because we do have the margins for it. At the same time, many other places I've worked or done consulting that is not a choice their businesses can survive. One place the cost difference between cloud and managed servers was large enough it'd have been several times their profit. We're not talking "marginally cheaper". It's rare to be talking about cost savings lover than 50%. That still doesn't mean it's always worth switching away from cloud environments - if that 50% saving is small enough to you to not matter, that's totally valid. But you ought to understand that you're making that choice because the costs are currently too insignificant to be worth it, not because it's the cheapest option. The argument is not that you should never pick cloud, but that claiming to choose cloud because the alternatives are "untenable from a financial point of view" to quote part of the comment that I first replied to is totally backwards and suggests to me nobody has actually done a cost analysis.