Cost is often the key factor when it comes to moving IT to the cloud. In practice, working out the cost of moving a workload or business process to the cloud is complex.
And, just as with on-premise hardware, there is more to the total cost of ownership of cloud systems than the “ticket price” alone. Cloud computing’s flexibility and consumption-based pricing models can make it hard to predict the lifetime cost of a project or a system. It is easy to add capacity or performance, but it is also easy to incur additional costs.
