[philliphaydon]

Well if your on prem then you’re probably bit more limited in what you can do. You can’t just go “let’s solve this with x” cos x doesn’t exist so you need to prevision it yourself and maintain it yourself. It’s probably better cos you actually need to think about what you’re building rather than just throwing services left and right at the problems.

I’m also not suggesting optimising and being careful is an argument for cloud. I’m saying that ruling out cloud is stupid. You can absolute have a Low cost solution perform very well on a cloud provider. The OP seems to think it’s not possible.