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[–] dragonlobster 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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…