[bsder]

> Ultimately, you are probably stuck in the cloud until you can hit that point of being able to dedicate 2+ full-time engineers to the task of managing your infrastructure.

Um, exactly?

People think about cloud as outsourcing the hardware when you are actually outsourcing the system administration.

So, when you have generated those system administrators in house (you can't hire them anymore because system administration as a career path is dead due to the cloud vendors) because they are troubleshooting the "cloud" so much, it's time to pull some things back to on-prem.

The other time is when you have one particular characteristic (network, storage, etc.) that the cloud providers are killing you on and you will save a whopping amount of money by changing. However, by that time, you presumably are successful enough that you have generated those system administrators anyway.