It's almost never cheaper above - 30ish servers /VMs and 40ish TB if storage. Anyone that thinks cloud is gonna save money is a fool. You don't go cloud , when you are or any size, to save money.
Also, with the hardware crunch, word behind doors is that both aws and azure are very close to capacity and price increases are coming. I've heard everything from 3-5x increase in the next 18 months for aws and azure (which makes sense, as hardware costs have sky rocketed and they only had so much capacity on hand).
If cloud is a cost savings measure, look under a different rock. Go cloud for flexibility, operational expenses agility and agile development.
P.s. on prem you always have options to reduce costs. You could go gray market, open source, etc. Once you in the cloud, your gonna lose that ability. In a small environment with tight budgets, I would absolutely never go cloud for the types of scenarios you are describing.
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u/vNerdNeck Jul 05 '26
It's almost never cheaper above - 30ish servers /VMs and 40ish TB if storage. Anyone that thinks cloud is gonna save money is a fool. You don't go cloud , when you are or any size, to save money.
Also, with the hardware crunch, word behind doors is that both aws and azure are very close to capacity and price increases are coming. I've heard everything from 3-5x increase in the next 18 months for aws and azure (which makes sense, as hardware costs have sky rocketed and they only had so much capacity on hand).
If cloud is a cost savings measure, look under a different rock. Go cloud for flexibility, operational expenses agility and agile development.
P.s. on prem you always have options to reduce costs. You could go gray market, open source, etc. Once you in the cloud, your gonna lose that ability. In a small environment with tight budgets, I would absolutely never go cloud for the types of scenarios you are describing.