By now, the potential benefits of moving workloads from the data center to the cloud are fairly well known. They include reduced time to market, increased flexibility to scale with demand, accelerated innovation, better reliability and faster recovery when applications go down.
These various benefits are often collectively simplified into an overly simplistic theme: the cloud will save you money. But this is a common misunderstanding. Take it from a cloud infrastructure provider; while in some cases moving workloads to the cloud can provide cost savings, that isn’t always the case and can vary from organization to organization and even workload to workload.
