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by 15155 9 days ago
> Cloud computing genuinely is cheaper on average.

For some applications, sure. Availability is a large part of what one is paying for with cloud computing, but it's also something that not every business needs.

If you sacrifice availability and have a pure-compute use case (low durability requirements), on-prem can quickly end up cheaper for far better hardware.