--- title: IDC's Big Cloud Prediction is Great...Except for One Thing description: IDC's Big Cloud Prediction is Great...Except for One Thing --- [![Epic River](https://blog.epicriver.com/hs-fs/hubfs/color-transparent-logo.png?width=320&name=color-transparent-logo.png "Epic River")](http://www.epicriver.com/home) - [Home](https://www.epicriver.com/) - [About](https://www.epicriver.com/about) - [Our Solution](https://www.epicriver.com/) - [News](https://epicriver.com/#) - [Contact](https://www.epicriver.com/) - [Support](https://knowledge.epicriver.com/knowledge/kb-tickets/new) - [Knowledgebase](https://knowledge.epicriver.com/knowledge) ![blog_bg-2023-1](https://blog.epicriver.com/hubfs/blog_bg-2023-1.png "blog_bg-2023-1") # IDC's Big Cloud Prediction is Great...Except for One Thing Posted by [Jessica Toney](https://blog.epicriver.com/author/jessica-toney) | Aug 2, 2016, 10:07:10 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) <span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce\_SELRES\_start"></span> The International Data Corporation ([IDC](http://www.idc.com/)) [Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker](http://www.idc.com/tracker/showproductinfo.jsp?prod_id=961)  predicts that cloud spending is going to continue to eat into traditional on-premise IT spending at a clip of 4% a year for the next five years. But the thing is, I think it's going to cut in even bigger and faster for one reason no one seems to be talking about - most cloud services are cheaper. Generally speaking, when I'm reading about trends in cloud computing, the comparisons are around servers in the building vs. virtual servers at a hosting facility. I think that is done because it's a comparison everyone can get their heads around. It's like when they calculate the "miles per gallon" of electric cars. It's a familiar construct so it works for marketing. The reason I think on-prem spending is going to drop much faster than IDC predicts is because of the ancillary benefits that come from cloud spending. Consider this one isolated scenario: before switching to cloud-hosted we were spending thousands of dollars a year on digital certificates. This isn't hardware or backups or electricity or cooling for our on-premise servers; this was the digital certificates we needed so we could add the handy little "s" at the end "http" on our sites. So that all fell into the IT budget under "Traditional IT." When we switched to AWS and, in particular, AWS Elastic Load Balancer, they gave us certs for free. So those thousands of dollars that were in the Traditional IT part of the budget? They didn't move to the cloud spending budget; they moved to profit. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Don't even get me started on auto-deploying a load-balanced, infinitely scalable web platform to multiple countries for a couple hundred bucks a month. 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