Running AI in the cloud is easy – and expensive
Let’s be honest about what’s happening in the market: Public cloud has become the easy button for AI. It offers immediate access to compute, storage, managed services, foundation model ecosystems, automation tools, and global reach. For enterprises that want to launch quickly, it is hard to argue against it. You do not need to spend years standing up infrastructure, hiring specialized operations teams, or engineering your own scalable environment before you can test your first use case. This is exactly why adoption continues even as confidence in cloud resilience becomes more complicated. This article about the expanding cloud market makes the point clearly. Enterprises are not pulling back from hyperscale clouds despite numerous outages. They continue to move forward because the benefits of agility, scalability, and rapid deployment are too valuable to ignore. The cloud remains deeply embedded in business operations, and for many organizations, stepping away would undo years, often de