Of course you could also invest heavily into cloud automation and likely run their payloads autoscaling and save a fortune too. My point is, when people compar

Of course you could also invest heavily into cloud automation and likely run their payloads autoscaling and save a fortune too. My point is, when people compare cloud to on prem they use a hypothetical on-prem installation vs a realistic actually working cloud deployment. We only see these blog posts for things that are just 1-2 servers. Very few companies are fully on-prem and saving a lot of money, they typically have very specific use cases like high bandwidth or IO usage.