I've been informally tracking time spent on systems my team manages and managed tools we use. (I manage infra where I work.)
There is very little difference.
And workarounds and troubleshooting spent on someone else's system mean we only learn about some proprietary system. That's bad for institutional knowledge and flexibility, and for individual careers.
Our needs don't mesh well with typical cloud offerings, so we don't use them for much. When we have, there has yet to be a cost savings - thus far they've always cost us more than we pay owning everything.
I mean, I personally like not dealing with hardware or having to spend time in data centers. But I can't justify it from a cost or a service perspective.
After amazon switched to ec2/sec kind of billing in 2017 i would say cloud is pretty good for prototyping and running CI. As to anything else i would say it depends.
I've been informally tracking time spent on systems my team manages and managed tools we use. (I manage infra where I work.)
There is very little difference.
And workarounds and troubleshooting spent on someone else's system mean we only learn about some proprietary system. That's bad for institutional knowledge and flexibility, and for individual careers.
Our needs don't mesh well with typical cloud offerings, so we don't use them for much. When we have, there has yet to be a cost savings - thus far they've always cost us more than we pay owning everything.
I mean, I personally like not dealing with hardware or having to spend time in data centers. But I can't justify it from a cost or a service perspective.