Cloud discussions are often framed as if the only mature position is full-throated enthusiasm. Real systems are less ideological. Cost, compliance, performance, control, and migration shape the answer far more than platform marketing does.

This piece was about that practical boundary: where cloud genuinely fits, where it does not, and why some large healthcare organizations were already learning that scale and regulation can make the trade-offs much less straightforward than the early pitch suggested.

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