Cloud providers changing plans and costs on a whim is a good reason to keep on-prem solutions. You'd have to be nuts to compromise your own business by using cloud provider services that you can't pick up and move at a moment's notice.
A quarter rack of IoSafe fireproof and waterproof NAS units inside a secure detached heavily-fortified bunker outside the main DC say nope to "all the backups" burning; anyways.. if those doing OnPremise took even the first thought about it, which most people would.. doing "On Pemise" right still involves having multiple premises - there are ways of protecting additional offline copies of data/extra media at the same site as the main copy.. A bigger issue in case of an event with a single premise is having no place to stand up hardware and restore things to..
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A quarter rack of IoSafe fireproof and waterproof NAS units inside a secure detached heavily-fortified bunker outside the main DC say nope to "all the backups" burning; anyways.. if those doing OnPremise took even the first thought about it, which most people would.. doing "On Pemise" right still involves having multiple premises - there are ways of protecting additional offline copies of data/extra media at the same site as the main copy.. A bigger issue in case of an event with a single premise is having no place to stand up hardware and restore things to..