[vacri]

On-Premises is also "one less third-party service to manage". I work for a small company, and was asked to list the external services we use a couple of days ago, and the list went into dozens.

It's not the primary reason for On Premises, but it's one less thing to worry about: "our tech team has full control, instead of yet another company having some control that we can't see"

[matt_wulfeck]

I would argue that from a management point of view it's actually a lot nicer for small places to offload to third parties. As a point, my original comment pointed out that somebody else is on-call for that services uptime.

[vacri]

I agree with you; outsourcing those services certainly helps this one-man ops team. But for a larger company with a more mature and staffed ops team, there's going to be that advantage above.