In SOME cases, it is cheaper than on prem. If you need a lot of compute power occasionally, it can be cheaper. If you actually scale up and down according to the load (which a lot of companies do not do), it might be cheaper. But a large amount of companies don’t fall in those cases or don’t do it efficiently. Some spend in a year the same amount they would have paid for on prem servers they would have kept 5 years or more.

Cloud providers offer other things like multi regional redundancy, which can be hard to achieve for smaller businesses.

Could Fairphone count as a “Major” Android OEM ?

They do use snapdragon chips, are priced roughly the same as the pixels, and might align the most with a project like Graphene and its values ?

One can dream…

I ended up going with Crowdsec.

The setup was a bit of a challenge as I like to do it the RTFM way abd that there is a bunch of concepts to grasp before you really understand what you are doing, but since then it’s been working pretty great ! And it’s free (as in you are providing them with data on the occurence of threats etc, so you don’t pay)