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There's also risk.
Offloading this stuff to cloud means you trade $ for someone else taking the risks.
And of you're a business, you (better) have cyber insurance, and those insurance vendors will ask tough questions that most self-hosters would be clueless to answer.
It can be done, but like anything else, there's no free lunch.
And if you have a proper finance org, they'll want to see how self-hosting makes financial sense.
It takes real expertise and diligence to run everything on-prem - most small businesses don't have the luxury of that kind of diligence since the cost (staff engineering time) comes from one side of the budget, and cloud (vendor) costs reduce both your risk and come from the other side of the budget (which reduces tax liability).