The connection count costs also balloon on most cloud providers (any busy protocol like telemetry or log-consolidation costs can be huge.) If your group pushes

The connection count costs also balloon on most cloud providers (any busy protocol like telemetry or log-consolidation costs can be huge.) If your group pushes over 23TiB/Month, than most usually look for un-metered colo hosts, and or CDN services with your resource integrity Attribute tags set. Cloud makes sense for small IT shops that can't afford a fully staffed team. The general rule is a 5:1 labor to hardware cost amortized over 3 years. AWS was successful as IT had enormous upfront costs most people found difficult to justify, and data-centers could absorb a DDoS that would be expensive to mitigate. Rule #17: "Only forward meaningful data at every layer of a design, as it often naturally ensures a feasible convergent behavior." There are a number of great options, but depends on the use-cases. =3