[curious_cat_163]

Just curious: if you are an enterprise, what do you think (besides cost) is a compelling argument in 2022 for not going to a public cloud? This is probably a Ask HN, so please do point me to it if you know an existing one.

[ocdtrekkie]

Cost is a huge one, but availability and service priority is a big one for me: Amazon and Microsoft are going to provide service and choose to deploy updates and do maintenance on schedules that work for them, not schedules that work for you.

Your in-house IT department knows not to take a risk the week before your big product launch. Amazon and Microsoft simply do not care about your product launch at all, and probably aren't even aware of it.

You're going to pay for infrastructure and IT staff either way, so why not pay for IT staff and infrastructure that prioritizes your business needs and not their own business needs?

[kazen44]

having your own control about maintenances is a big one.

the same with being able to give your customers flexibility in terms of when maintenance happens. this is a big deal in b2b space, especially with long running client relationships because it gives customers some form of control they never are going to get back in the public cloud unless they are insanely large customers.