There's also just all sorts of other extra features you may get for free. These are things that may not be worth it for you to spend precious dev time developing, but since cloud providers can make it once and offer it to thousands of customers, it makes much more sense. You can look at the full list of GCP features [0], and it's growing every month.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/products/

A critical security issue in public cloud is that users often misunderstand what infrastructure security entails.

I've been in public cloud pitches that sold their security measures as a golden standard that made my managers believe there's no need for a security team anymore. No need for protocols or proper architecture as x cloud has enough flashy certifications.

Support for auto-scaling services in a self-managed environment too