Microsoft 365 Fundamentals MS-900 Practice Question

Investing in additional on-premises infrastructure involves substantial upfront capital expenditure (CapEx). This includes costs for purchasing physical servers, storage devices, networking equipment, and upgrading or expanding facilities to accommodate the new hardware. Expenses for power, cooling systems, and physical security also add to the initial investment. In contrast, migrating workloads to a public cloud provider, adopting a hybrid solution, or utilizing cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) applications typically require lower upfront costs. These options shift expenses to operational expenditure (OpEx), where costs are incurred based on usage over time, reducing the need for large initial investments.