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We're going to turn this around right on its head that the costs of cloud backups are actually more predictable and less expensive than doing it on your own. Agree. I think. I think that's a fair point. I think that is fair. Um, it's not to say that, you know, um, you're not going to look at the costs and not be surprised by them. But then I think that's possibly because in on the on premises environment, the costs are definitely hidden from you. So, you know, I think actually it's actually a good thing because it exposes the cost of delivering the service more clearly. And that's a good thing when you're passing that back onto users. You hit on a great point there, because a lot of times, you know, when I'm talking, uh, you know, with uh, customers or other organizations, um, they tend to not have either on, on purpose or uh, or just, uh, through happenstance, uh, full understanding of where all the costs are coming from, uh, when they're doing their own on premises, they might only be looking at the licenses for the, the backup software itself instead of saying, well, what about all the infrastructure? What about those appliances? What about those servers? What about all this? What about the D.R. site that you've also got in there, uh, kind of thing? You know, because, you know, that's something that we haven't talked, talked about. You know, we were just kind of talking about primary backup environment. You know, when you start adding in stuff like, okay, well, now I need multiple copies of the backup. Now I need that resilience in the backup solution itself. Maybe a Docker build of it. Uh, you know, when leveraging, you know, a cloud service provider, you know, a backup as a service, um, you know, all of that redundancy is kind of baked into that infrastructure behind the scenes. You know, you don't have those added costs of, well, now I need, you know, an off site copy. It's like it's already off site and there's probably multiple copies back there. I know for us, we've we we store multiple copies uh, automatically, you know, and you don't have to worry about. Well, what if site one fails? How do I get site two? You know, with the cloud deployment model? Uh, you know, that's all again, the multi-regional support is there. So, uh, there was are other costs that again, to your point, not everyone looks at that whole picture. It's like, well, my my backup software license is this, uh, and, you know, that's much that's, uh, much better than, than, uh, what the cloud provider is offering. It's like, well, no, you need to you're not looking at the whole thing. And so I'm really glad you hit on that point. Uh.
