[Aeolun]

There are few things we want to do on-premise any more. The main problem of on-premise, and benefit of cloud, is that we can add new capacity at a moments notice. You never have to wonder if you’ll need to add more capacity (with two month lead times) to provision a database.

Now you could say that infra teams that do not anticipate such a need are less than ideal, and I’d agree with you, but I haven’t been part of them and I imagine they have their own issues to deal with.

Cloud (as a dev) makes me not worry about infra teams, since they’re not our problem (beyond the ones managing the cloud environment).

[headsoup]

There are certainly companies like yours that are perhaps Web product driven and need flexible scalability, but there are many out there that have little requirements for such scaling, at least unexpectedly, which will run perfectly fine with on-premises virtualisation.

The poster above is right, both have their purpose, but those sold on cloud as the complete solution are kidding themselves in most cases, Happy to accept crazy cloud cost blow-outs above over-provisioning tin or thinking properly about the use-cases.

It honestly sounds like you don't care about efficiency because of either good inflows or a need to move extremely fast. Such is the appeal of cloud...

[Aeolun]

You are actually right. Thinking back to other companies I’ve worked for, only the last two had any need for cloud, the others had a more or less stable workload that was ideal for on-premise. Also all between 5-200 employees, I wonder if that matters.