You need the exact same people to run the infra in the cloud. If they don't have IT at all, they aren't spinning up cloud VMs. You're mixing together SaaS and actual cloud infra.
You need the exact same people to run the infra in the cloud. If they don't have IT at all, they aren't spinning up cloud VMs. You're mixing together SaaS and actual cloud infra.
I'm one of those people, and I don't agree.
Before I drop 5 figures on a single server, I'd like to have some confidence in the performance numbers I'm likely to see. I'd expect folk who are experienced with on-prem have a good intuition about this - after a decade of cloud-only work, I don't.
Also, cloud networking offers a bunch of really nice primitives which I'm not clear how I'd replicate on-prem.
I've estimated our IT workload would roughly double if we were to add physically racking machines, replacing failed disks, monitoring backups/SMART errors etc. That's... not cheap in staff time.
Moving things on-prem starts making financial sense around the point your cloud bills hit the cost of one engineers salary.
> Also, cloud networking offers a bunch of really nice primitives which I'm not clear how I'd replicate on-prem.
Like what?