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Could you provide some data to back up your claims? I've seen quite a few comments like yours claiming that the cloud service providers are so expensive, and y

• Spooky23 10y ago
  I think azernik's reply in the other point of the thread illustrates very well how well scoped, scalable SaaS workloads are very amenable to cloud. His example is Amazon Workmail, my real-life example is Office 365, where Microsoft can essentially offer Exchange, Lync, SharePoint and Office apps for less than it would cost us to deliver Office apps + Exchange -- and make a margin. That's old news, as Forrester reported back in 2009. https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//a/help/intl/en/admins/pdf/forrester_cloud_email_cost_analysis.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en... It's just a matter of doing the math. It's very situational, and unfortunately I don't have anything that I've done that I am at liberty to share. I can say that in my case, at least 75% of apps we've looked at were rejected for AWS/Azure because they clearly cost more (25%) to operate, or savings were very marginal and our data about stuff like outbound bandwidth requirements was insufficient. Keep in mind, my employer operates two shiny, efficient datacenters. We drive significant vendor savings based on purchase volumes. For a startup with no capital, AWS/Azure/etc is a no-brainer.