With the continued adoption of the hyperscale cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud (GCP), the debate rages on among IT shops across the world on how a company should adopt "the cloud" moving forward.  

Each year, the debate changes as the cloud environments get more secure (or less depending on who you talk to), less expensive and the decision on whether to refresh becomes increasingly more difficult.    

See the breakdown of the comparison between on-prem and cloud.

One thing remains the same, a hybrid model seems to remain the best option across the board.