The public cloud has been marketed as the silver bullet for IT cost savings for over a decade. "Pay as you go." "Only pay for what you use." "Scale up or down with ease." These messages—repeated across glossy brochures, sales decks, and keynote speeches—have created the perception that public cloud offerings like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are the most economical way to run modern IT infrastructure.
Here’s the truth: they’re not.
For many businesses, especially mid-sized companies and those in compliance-driven industries, public cloud services end up being more expensive, less secure, and harder to control than expected. Let’s unpack the myth, expose the hidden costs, and explain why viLogics’ co-location and bare metal services are the smarter, leaner choice.
At first glance, public cloud pricing looks appealing. Need a server? Spin up an EC2 instance on AWS for just a few cents per hour. Need storage? S3 pricing seems trivial. But what those calculators don’t show you is the death by a thousand paper cuts that comes along with Public Cloud: (And don't ever talk about Gov Cloud)
Data egress fees (often the most significant unplanned expense)
Inter-region traffic charges
Snapshot storage
Monitoring, logging, and alerting
Support fees are based on a percentage of your monthly bill
Additional charges for security, backups, load balancing, and more
You’re not just renting infrastructure—you’re entering a complex pricing jungle where everything costs extra.
The promise of elasticity sounds great—scale up when you need, scale down when you don’t. But in practice, most companies:
Overprovision resources “just in case”
Leave instances running overnight or unused
Deploy test environments that become permanent
Fail to monitor idle storage or unused IP addresses
Gartner estimates that up to 40% of cloud spend is wasted. In other words, businesses are burning money to power resources no one’s using.
Security in the public cloud is your responsibility—not theirs. Sure, AWS and Azure provide the underlying infrastructure, but you’re still on the hook for:
Encryption configuration
Identity & access management
Compliance audits and reports
Logging and SIEM integration
Backup management
Patching, endpoint security, and DNS protection
If you operate in healthcare, finance, manufacturing, or other regulated industries, the compliance overhead of public cloud can quickly outpace your internal team's capabilities. And when you try to buy enterprise add-ons to fill those gaps? The costs spike again.
Public cloud platforms are sticky by design. Once you adopt a vendor’s proprietary APIs, managed services (like Lambda, Cosmos DB, or BigQuery), and IAM structures, extracting your workloads is like trying to leave a cult—with your data held hostage.
Cloud exit fees are no joke. Consider:
Data egress charges to migrate away
Engineering costs to re-architect your application stack
Training costs for new platforms
Downtime risk during the transition
Suddenly, that low-entry public cloud turns into a high-exit trap. You're not just paying to get in—you're paying even more to get out.
Public cloud servers are shared environments. While cloud providers boast about availability zones and SLAs, customers often face:
“Noisy neighbor” problems (shared CPU or bandwidth bottlenecks)
Latency unpredictability
Limited visibility into physical infrastructure
Loss of control over security patching timelines
The public cloud is like trying to win a NASCAR race in a rented Prius for mission-critical applications, compliance-sensitive data, and high-performance environments. You're paying for infrastructure you can’t fully see, manage, or optimize.
viLogics offers a smarter path forward—bare metal and co-location services designed for performance, cost control, and compliance without compromise.
Here’s what sets us apart:
No guessing. No surprise charges. You know precisely what you’re paying monthly, no matter how much traffic or compute you use.
Dedicated servers in a SOC 2-certified Tier 3 data center. Choose your stack, manage your OS, and run your applications with zero overhead.
Need HIPAA, CMMC, or PCI alignment? We’ll help you architect the environment, configure controls, and document everything for your auditors. We’re not just a hosting provider—we’re your cybersecurity partner.
You get dedicated bandwidth, full resource isolation, and predictable performance—perfect for database-heavy applications, latency-sensitive services, and high-transaction environments.
You own the stack. Want to migrate to a new environment later? No problem. Unlike the hyperscalers, we don’t penalize you for leaving—we support your success, not your captivity.
Let’s talk numbers.
In a 3-year TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) comparison, most mid-market businesses see:
30–60% savings when switching from public cloud to viLogics co-lo or bare metal
Reduced overhead from simplified billing and resource management
Fewer IT headaches due to lower platform complexity and higher visibility
And those are just the direct costs. When you factor in security gaps, compliance risks, and migration planning, the real cost of public cloud skyrockets, while the viLogics model stays stable, scalable, and secure.
If your organization is stuck in the public cloud pricing trap—or worse, thinking about entering it—pause and ask:
Do I really know my true cloud costs?
Am I getting the performance and control I need?
Is this model sustainable for the long term?
If not, it’s time to rethink the strategy.
At viLogics, we help clients untangle the complexity of cloud costs and rebuild smarter, more secure infrastructure that works for the business, not against it.
Contact our team today for a free cost modeling session. We’ll show you how viLogics’ co-location and bare metal services can cut costs, boost security, and future-proof your infrastructure—without the fine print.