Consolidation / optimization of labor. When Crowdstrike messes up and BSODs thousands of machines, they have a dedicated team of engineers working the problem

Consolidation / optimization of labor. When Crowdstrike messes up and BSODs thousands of machines, they have a dedicated team of engineers working the problem and can deliver a solution. When your company gets owned because you didn't check a compliance checkbox, it's on you to fix it (and you may not even currently have the talent to do so). We see similar risk tradeoffs in cloud computing in general; yes, hosting your stuff on AWS leaves you vulnerable to AWS outages, but it's not like outages don't happen if you run your own iron. You're just going to have to dispatch someone a three hour drive away to the datacenter to fix it when they do.