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The costs of cloud backups are unpredictable and more expensive than on prem and what I can build myself. So I'll start by saying, if you're doing it yourself, uh, you know, and you don't necessarily know what you're doing, then you know for sure the cost of working in the cloud can be, uh, unpredictable and expensive. You know, if you've got to take care of running all of the compute and the storage and worrying about orphaned resources or compute nodes are just sitting there idle and spinning. There's a lot of ways that, you know, all of a sudden that bill can get very, very large. Uh, but when you pivot to looking at it from a, you know, a cloud backup as a service provider, you know, like Druva like others, um, you know, who kind of again, they take that complexity away. Um, so you don't have to worry about the, you know, that unpredictable unpredictability of managing all those resources you just have to worry about, you know, how much data am I protecting? Uh, how many users do I have? You know, it doesn't matter if there's one server behind there or a thousand servers or a million monkeys on typewriters and keyboards. Um, you know, you're looking more at what's the service level that I'm looking for and how much am I consuming that? So it really simplifies that and makes it, you know, what would have otherwise been a very unpredictable and and potentially expensive, uh, business, uh, into a quite predictable and simple one in the terms of since you don't have to worry about all those other pieces and managing those pieces, uh, the cloud vendors are doing that for you. Uh, you just have to worry about the most important thing, you know, how much data am I protecting? And. And go and consuming that resource so it becomes much more predictable and linear in terms of understanding what your costs are going to be in the cloud. Yeah, I sort of laugh at this one, actually, because, um, if you break down all of the different components that are required to build an on premises solution, you're building servers, which you'll have to upgrade, maintain, you're buying software, which you have to license and you have to pay for. You buy media, you potentially have to put in networking. And inevitably, I found that when people increase their primary storage, they tend to forget that the backup systems need to be upgraded as well in order to take the additional capacity. So inevitably, you get to a point where, you know, you put in a few hundred more terabytes petabyte or whatever, and then suddenly somebody says, well, we haven't got capacity to back this up because nobody really sort of budgets for that. And it sort of limps along and it gets extended. And then, you know, maybe you get sort of six months down the line or ten years down the line, however long it happens to be, suddenly you need to refresh the media because the media is getting old and you need to retain those backups. Well, where does that cost center sit? Is this just an overhead that has to be accounted for? Generally people don't account for that.
