On-premise is Almost Four Times Cheaper * than the Cloud
* If you don’t count the amount of time spent maintaining the on-premise equipment. Abstract My 48-VM (virtual machine) homelab configuration costs me approximately $430/month in hardware, electricity, virtualization software, and internet, but an equivalent configuration on AWS (Amazon Web Services) would cost $1,660/month (almost four times as expensive)! Disclosures: I work for VMware, which sells on-premise virtualization software (i.e. vSphere). I didn’t put a dollar value on the time spent maintaining on-premise because I had a hard time assigning a dollar value....