It's cheaper for us
In our specific case, it's turned out cheaper in total cost. We grow/shrink as needed, embrace monitoring, patching agents and I am able to wear infrastructure wonk hat along with others in a small company. Not having on-prem tin makes ISO27001 cheaper to maintain and I've not need to visit an office since February. It was jarring having to learn all the new nomenclature (oh! security groups ARE virtual firewalls etc), they change the service underneath (although that did happen with software updates for on-prem too), you might accidentally configure something that's expensive and I find cost tracking a necessary tedium. Your mileage might vary.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
