Head in the clouds.

When I wrote about the public cloud evolving the role of infrastructure engineering, I sort of imagined that the precursor question–should we run our infrastructure on the public cloud?–was already quite settled. Unexpectedly, it's a discussion that I find myself having more rather than less frequently each year, so I've taken some time to structure and document my thinking.

In short: run on the public cloud unless (1) it prevents you from executing on your core competency or (2)...