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How can you say you will get better value by buying your own hardware over using the cloud? The whole reason companies moved to the cloud is because that is not true. Cloud computing turns fixed capital costs to operational costs. It also simplifies a lot of things. You're not trading freedom and knowledge for an illusion. You're trading money for elasticity. There are two sides to every freedom. Freedom to do something, and freedom from having the requirement to do something. By moving to the cloud, we get rid of capital costs in servers, realestate for datacenters, power/electricity/internet/utilities, employing technical experts in that field...