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Let me give you some hearsay then from working in both megacorps and hosting. Running a public cloud requires a massive amount of people, unlike what you seem
by user5994461 7y ago
Let me give you some hearsay then from working in both megacorps and hosting.
Running a public cloud requires a massive amount of people, unlike what you seem to think. It takes one or two orders of magnitude more work to do anything public rather than internal. Bet there is no resource and no budget to keep running their public cloud anymore. It's a small company, don't have unlimited resources.
Second, there are no revenues, no future and no clients on their public cloud. Solaris for all intent and purpose is dead (it pains me to say that but that's a fact). What companies run Solaris in this decade? None. Plus hosting competition is at an all time high, DigitalOcean and other on the cheap side, AWS and Google on the enterprise side.
Samsung is a massive company and all massive companies have massive internal systems and need for internal infrastructure. I bet there is plenty of work that needs to be done internally that is much more valuable than public cloud. There they go.
If you've worked in any F50, you would know that the sheer amount of servers and desktops is larger than an AWS datacenter. They are all cloud hosting, internal or external, whether that's their main business or not.
- nixgeek 7y agoAmount of servers? Not sure. Reasonable speculation suggests us-east-1 to be over one million physical servers at this point, based on Hamilton’s talk about AZ design and scale at re:Invent a couple years ago and their IPv4 consumption rate across AWS. I don’t imagine your average Fortune 50 has millions of servers.
- user5994461 7y agoThe talks a few years ago put a datacenter around 60k servers. us-east-1 region has multiple availability zones that each has multiple datacenters (both more so than the typical region because it's the largest one). Consider that a Fortune 50 has hundreds of thousands of employees. With one desktop per employee that's already way more hardware to manage than an AWS datacenter. Now think of how many servers, mobile devices, network gear, access points there are to run the business. 60k servers is not uncommon. A million devices is nothing special.