- Cost. It's vastly cheaper to run your own infra (like, 10-100x -- really!). The reason to run in cloud is not to save money, it's to shift from capex to opex and artificially couple client acquisition to expenditure in a way that juices your sheets for VCs.
- Principle. You can't do business in the cloud without paying people who also work to assemble lists of citizens to hand over to fascist governments.
- Control. Cloud providers will happily turn your systems off if asked by the government, a higher-up VP, or a sufficiently large partner.
EDIT: I should add. Cloud is great for something -- moving very fast with minimal staffing. That said, unless you get large enough to renegotiate you will get wedged into a cost deadend where your costs would be vastly reduced by going in-house, but you cannot afford to do so in the short term. Particularly for the HN audience, take care to notice who your accelerator is directing you to use for cloud services -- they are typically co-invested.
- Cost. It's vastly cheaper to run your own infra (like, 10-100x -- really!). The reason to run in cloud is not to save money, it's to shift from capex to opex and artificially couple client acquisition to expenditure in a way that juices your sheets for VCs.
- Principle. You can't do business in the cloud without paying people who also work to assemble lists of citizens to hand over to fascist governments.
- Control. Cloud providers will happily turn your systems off if asked by the government, a higher-up VP, or a sufficiently large partner.
EDIT: I should add. Cloud is great for something -- moving very fast with minimal staffing. That said, unless you get large enough to renegotiate you will get wedged into a cost deadend where your costs would be vastly reduced by going in-house, but you cannot afford to do so in the short term. Particularly for the HN audience, take care to notice who your accelerator is directing you to use for cloud services -- they are typically co-invested.