Cloud vs. Traditional On-Premises
Contrast owning and managing physical hardware with renting capacity from a cloud provider, and learn the key benefits: elasticity, pay-as-you-go, and global reach.
What Is On-Premises Infrastructure?
On-premises means a company buys and houses its own servers in its own building. Full control, but every machine must be bought and wired before anything runs.
Capital vs. Operational Expenditure
On-prem is CapEx — big one-time hardware buys. The cloud is OpEx — you just pay monthly for what you use. That switch is a big reason teams move to the cloud.
All lessons in this course
- Cloud vs. Traditional On-Premises
- IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Explained
- Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud
- Key Cloud Benefits and Economies of Scale