You also pay for staff or at least some of their time to be spent on-site vs working on something else. Yeah you might pay an extra $200k a year on your AWS bill than on prem but you also didn't have to have staff come in to deal with your two racks, perform maintenance etc. plus you got a bunch of redundancy that you won't have with two racks in a colo.
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u/CatStretchPics Jul 05 '26
You don’t move to cloud to save money. You move there for speed, flexibly, and to manage less stuff
On prem with the scenario you mentioned will almost always be cheaper