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Depends on which $$s go into that comparison. Server costs? Probably. Engineering time? Accounting for all kinds of risks? Unlikely.


I don't think I've seen a cloud-first company that spent less engineering time on managing their infrastructure. You just replace one set of work with another.


Sometimes it results in more work because of the lowered upfront cost of spinning up new cloud services




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