Even with the discounts of volume pricing cloud prices are still quite inflated unless you need to inherit specific controls like the P&E ones from FedRAMP High/GovCloud. The catch there is lock-in technologies that may require to re-develop large swaths of your applications if you're heavily reliant on cloud-native tools.
Even going multi-region, hiring dedicated 24/7 data center staff, and purchasing your own hardware amortizes out pretty quickly and can you a serious competitive advantage in pricing against others. This is especially true if you are a large consumer of bandwidth.
Even going multi-region, hiring dedicated 24/7 data center staff, and purchasing your own hardware amortizes out pretty quickly and can you a serious competitive advantage in pricing against others. This is especially true if you are a large consumer of bandwidth.