More expensive - maybe, depending on how good you are at managing runaway costs.
More work - definitely not. No matter how hard managing your AWS workflows is, bare metal will always be all that same work plus everything else related to hardware, cooling, power management, ISP and more.
Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
by apple4ever on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:46PM
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But you make one tradeoff for another.
Sure you have "hardware, cooling, power management, ISP and more", but that's all easy, especially compared to managing AWS workflows.
IME cloud _can_ easily be more expensive and more work than bare metal, in house or colocated. If course it depends upon the workload and the tools/resources available to manage it. Even with clouds there is still server management to do.