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>Amazon and Microsoft seem to be making healthy profits off their cloud services. That's part of your cost. Only if you can do it more efficiently than them. I
by rubber_duck 10y ago
>Amazon and Microsoft seem to be making healthy profits off their cloud services. That's part of your cost.
Only if you can do it more efficiently than them. If they are more efficient then they can make a profit and you still save money.
- throwaway13337 10y agoOnly if they are so efficient that after they get their cut, it's still more efficient than rolling your own. Because these cloud services have inherent lock-in, they don't have enough incentive to keep margins low. Indeed, Amazon's margins are extremely high after factoring in bandwidth costs.
- cm2187 10y agoAgree, but that's my question. Does the savings achieved by these cloud providers more than offset their margin, or is the motivation to move to the cloud solely a return on capital / removing a distraction?
- acqq 10y agoIt seems that their motivation was enabling the use the "machine learning" as they say or the "Big Data Analytics" as the user threeseed recognized in his post here.
- fuzzybeard 10y agoReminds me of the "buying locally grown food" argument that's premised on the assumption that buying locally grown food requires less carbon emissions because the food doesn't have to be transported from far away. HOWEVER that argument ignores that even after factoring in transportation, those larger industrial farms are farm more efficient than your local farm. So even with transportation the industrially sourced food might be more carbon efficient.