My company cannot run our infrastructure in the cloud because we do performance/availability monitoring from ~700 PoP’s around the world. Not running our infra

My company cannot run our infrastructure in the cloud because we do performance/availability monitoring from ~700 PoP’s around the world. Not running our infrastructure in the cloud is part of our value proposition. Our customers depend on us to detect and alert them when their services go down. We _have_ to be operational when the cloud providers are not, otherwise we aren’t providing our customer with a valuable service. Another reason we don’t run in the cloud is because we store a substantial amount of data that is ever increasing. It’s cheaper to run our own SAN in a data center than to store and query it in the cloud. The final reason is our workloads aren’t elastic. Our CPU’s are never idle. In that type of use case, it’s cheaper to own the hardware.