Comment by camsjams

Is this cheaper though?

For a medium-to-large app, K8s should offset a lot of the operational difficulties. Also you don't have to use K8s.

Cloud is turn-on/turn-off, whereas on-premises you pay up front investment.

Here are all of the hidden costs of on-prem that folks forget about when thinking about cloud being "expensive":

- hardware

- maintenance

- electricity

- air conditioning

- security

- on-call and incident response

Here are all of the hidden time-consumers of on-prem that folks forget about when thinking about cloud being "difficult":

- os patching and maintenance

- network maintenance

- driver patching

- library updating and maintenance

- BACKUPS

- redundancy

- disaster recovery

- availability