[nradov]

In the modern threat environment it's no longer viable for small and medium enterprises to maintain their own IT infrastructure. This includes city governments. They should outsource infrastructure to one of the major cloud vendors with the scale and technical competence necessary to counter advanced persistent threats. It's a shame that we all have to pay this "tax" and give more control to a few big tech companies, but that is our reality.

[foepys]

This doesn't help. You still need people to configure the group policies and firewalls. You will also need a local installation on various PCs running on-prem to connect a lot of hardware.

You might get away with Azure AD instead of a local domain controller and exchange but you won't get much farther than that. And if there isn't a backup strategy in place already, this won't change with cloud.

[alephnerd]

They already have for at least 15 years.