Fully agree. Cloud can be an easy way to get started since you don't have to pay as much up front, and even you need extremely elastic scaling you'll save a for

Fully agree. Cloud can be an easy way to get started since you don't have to pay as much up front, and even you need extremely elastic scaling you'll save a fortune in the long term by investing in at least some on-prem hardware to handle the off-peak workloads. If you have predictable stable loading, you can save even more!