So while some of organisations may have security concerns, others may want to take benefit from economy of scale and may want to migrate from on-premises (in-house or colocated) hosting to cloud infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud platform (GCP) or Microsoft's Azure etc. In reality, security should be your real concern for all types of infrastructures. While public cloud is open to world and requires stringent security controls within cloud, your on-premises data stored on encrypted disks requires more or local access and physical security controls. There are benefits of cloud and flexibility or pay as much as you use would suit most of its tenants. There are cases where cloud could become too expensive for certain applications where on-premises infrastructure may be beneficial for your organisation, however you are talking an extreme scale here. Majority of enterprise solutions are still hosted on on-premises infrastructure and some are sceptic a...
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