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We migrated a bunch of clients back when we took over for other IT. Cloud was slower, way more costly, less utilitarian, and gave less control. I have no idea why people switched in the first place.
I actually brought it up on an MSP subreddit back when I was still posting there and was relentlessly shit on.
Because "cloud" was the hot buzzword of 2005
It is good for some things like a web server but bad for anything that involves high data or compute needs.
The theory is that on-prem includes a lot of ancillary costs like a team of staff for maintenance (or cost for outsourcing it), hardware maintenance/upgrades, cybersecurity, dealing with failures, backup, load balancing, multi-region/multizone etc.
I don't think cloud solves all these issues necessarily and I am convinced if you do the calculations cloud ends up being more expensive depending on the scale. I think you really pay the premium for convenience, speed (of getting things going) and user experience (the software)
The biggest reason I think is SLAs and the ability to blame someone else when something goes wrong. I've seen it play out at multiple different companies now.
Yeah, having to have someone „on site“ who knows about cyber security and such vs having a piece of paper laying around that tells you that availability, continuity, security are hidden away in a SEP field. It’s easy to guess which one you want to choose…
Depends whether you want to try preventing damage, or just have someone maybe* half-ass it and take the blame.
*Like they say in security, "how do you know?".
SLA and support is the biggest one. We had to pay Migrants for Docker Enterprise licenses just in case we needed support or some sort of liability shield.