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Dikitain posted...

My old company had a room that wasn't convenient enough to add cubes or an office in, so they just threw a few dozen machines in there and dubbed it a "server room". Add some window air conditioning units and you have a server room for only a few thousand dollars, and the upkeep is way cheaper then you would get from AWS.

I'm an on-prem advocate but you can't just throw out "a few thousand dollars" and pretend that's the entirety of the TCO. Just skills alone you're going to need storage/backup specialists, vendor management responsibilities, hardware maintenance, monitoring, the list is long.