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C9. Consider technical debt and long-term lifecycle operation and maintenance obligations when comparing an on-premises implementation to the public cloud.

When we compare the costs of cloud versus on-premises deployments, we need to remember to include the real cost/risk of technical debt. Infrastructure managed at scale in the cloud will almost always be managed better than infrastructure on premises. We are constantly making trade-offs between managing infrastructure correctly/better and responding to higher level needs of the university.