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Depends on how stable your needs are, but sometimes its cheaper even when you considerer total cost and not just for big deployments.

In the past 2 or three years, we probably moved more services off the cloud than other way. That said one reason for that is that most new services are build in the cloud, so there are less services off the cloud than on it.

Cloud is best, when you are starting out, when you don't know what you need, need high velocity of adding new stuff, of have very burst like demand for either traffic or cpu etc. Or if you are just small developer only team.

But if you have applications that are relatively stable, are mostly feature complete and you don't expect much sudden growth etc, it's useful to run the numbers if cloud is still something you want/need.