Cloud vs On-Premise Infrastructure

Summary

On-premise means owning and maintaining physical servers in your own data center; cloud means renting that infrastructure from a provider — each has real trade-offs in cost structure, control, and operational overhead.

• 1List 2 advantages of on-premise infrastructure that cloud doesn't fully replace.
• 2Learn why cloud shifts costs from capital expenditure (buying hardware) to operational expenditure (ongoing rent).
• 3Understand why some regulated industries still run significant on-premise infrastructure.