On-premise and being miserable having to wait months to get a new server with poor automation, observability and worse outages?
To another major cloud provider with similar pricing and outages?
Cloud helped mostly with automation and scaling but if your system is that critical, you should consider a good CDN as load balancer and multi-cloud (or at least multi-region) for actual robustness.
AWS and GCP both have ~100% uptime in every region for VMs this month. Meanwhile the majority of Azure regions have had various outages in the same period: https://cloudharmony.com/status-of-compute
Almost certainly due to Azure's broken policy where we have critical change advisory's that block deployments for huge periods of time towards the end of the year because of Black Friday and then holidays. Every team has basically been unable to deploy since the week before Thanksgiving when a surprise CCOA was pushed out by leadership at the behest of a certain big customer... then there was the World Cup and the winter holidays. Nobody could really deploy anything from a week before Thanksgiving until a week after the New Years... almost two months worth of batched changes and every team YOLO button pressing as soon as they could in January.
And now layoffs so everyone is super unmotivated! Excellent stuff going on right now from Microsoft senior leadership.
Where I worked, the internal approval processes and controls over cloud resources are as lengthly as those for on premise hardware. So that may be the case for small companies but I don't think there is much of a difference in those large bureaucracies.
On-premise and being miserable having to wait months to get a new server with poor automation, observability and worse outages? To another major cloud provider with similar pricing and outages?
Cloud helped mostly with automation and scaling but if your system is that critical, you should consider a good CDN as load balancer and multi-cloud (or at least multi-region) for actual robustness.