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>Configuring something on premises to match the capabilities of AWS or Azure or CloudFlare is very, very difficult and involves a lot of local money and expertise that often isn’t available at any affordable price.

A large number of cloud customers dont need the complexity that the cloud can offer. Like, yes, its hard to 1:1 feature replicate the cloud. But so many people just have some VMs and some routes.



And they would need a team to support the hypervisor. Znd its backup. And its performance. And, and, and.

This is fine if you are big. Anything smaller and it is a big problem.

This is also why they do not manage their plumbing and do not run z restaurant in house. Some things are better left to companies that do it at scale




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