Is Azure IoT Hub worth it? (or should we just self-host brokers?)

<*** class="md">Hey fellow IoT-Redditors,

I'm assigned to a new project at work (Remote Logging data from our machines via edge devices). Edge Devices in this case will be Revolution Pi's

We've already started scripting up and getting some of the data from the machines network card (SNMP connector) and transfered data locally via MQTT, so pretty much decided on the MQTT and pub/sub model.

While my colleagues are heavily advocating for a cloud solution (Azure IoT Hub), I think we'll be fine with self-hosted MQTT brokers + writing to DB (Influx) on VMs. Scaling can be done via Kubernetes in this case.

Considering the scale will be prototypical at the beginning (let's say 10-20 devices) and MIGHT scale up in the future, would you rather go with the cloud solution or self-manage the MQTT brokers?

Thanks for the advice

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