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So… Should You Actually Move to the Cloud? - Extended Version

A Survival Guide for On-Prem Brains in a Pay-As-You-Panic World

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JJ – Chief Packet Pusher
Dec 22, 2025
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If you made it this far in the series, congrats — you now understand the cloud better than half the people selling it.

This version answers the question executives ask and engineers fear:

“So… should we move everything to the cloud?”

✅ A Real Cloud Decision Checklist

Move to the cloud only if most of these are true:

  • Workloads scale unpredictably

  • You deploy of…

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