My time is worth a tremendous amount to me, which means I want to use my own hardware. "The cloud" does not guarantee reliability.
Any company that does any project that even slightly regularly requires compute / storage can easily justify the time to do all the things you mentioned.
The fact that many companies have gone towards "the cloud" goes hand-in-hand with the fact that many companies use Windows. It's clearly not the best thing to use to get things done, but the IT people don't want to reduce their importance and the management people like the kickbacks and perks they get from buying certain thing from certain companies.
The savings look good on paper, but the reality is that they're based on leaving out lots of information. I've helped several companies move from "the cloud" back to good, local compute resources because of the amount of money they were hemorrhaging to "cloud" providers.
My time is worth a tremendous amount to me, which means I want to use my own hardware. "The cloud" does not guarantee reliability.
Any company that does any project that even slightly regularly requires compute / storage can easily justify the time to do all the things you mentioned.
The fact that many companies have gone towards "the cloud" goes hand-in-hand with the fact that many companies use Windows. It's clearly not the best thing to use to get things done, but the IT people don't want to reduce their importance and the management people like the kickbacks and perks they get from buying certain thing from certain companies.
The savings look good on paper, but the reality is that they're based on leaving out lots of information. I've helped several companies move from "the cloud" back to good, local compute resources because of the amount of money they were hemorrhaging to "cloud" providers.
For the most part, it's all marketing bullshit.