Re: On prem hosting
This is the difference. I can control our costs if the infrastructure is on site - we can consolidate VM's/containers onto fewer physical machines, turn up the air conditioning by a degree, get rid of the last older devices that are less power efficient than newer ones...
If everything was hosted by Azure or AWS we'd be beholden to them and any price increase they put our way, with no quick way to move away to save costs.