At my previous employer (which was telco adjacent in a way) we basically came to the same conclusion. Big plans were drawn up to only locate specific hardware i

At my previous employer (which was telco adjacent in a way) we basically came to the same conclusion. Big plans were drawn up to only locate specific hardware in physical data centers and move 90% of the load to the cloud. It never left the planning stage because our VP could never get the numbers to work. Once you cross a certain threshold of services, scale and reliability you’re paying a premium to be in the cloud.