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If you've ever worked at a firm with serious calculation and data loads (aka data science at scale), they almost always end up with big hardware in a data cente
by scottlocklin 7y ago
If you've ever worked at a firm with serious calculation and data loads (aka data science at scale), they almost always end up with big hardware in a data center. Because markups on EC2 (and google/azure) are insane.
- jl6 7y agoIf the cost of all cloud services is similar, then maybe that’s just what it costs to run a cloud service? That’s not high markup, that’s just cloud being more expensive than on-prem. Or are you suggesting price collusion to maintain artificially high profits?
- scottlocklin 7y agoThe latter is obviously the case. Look at their profit margins! You don't get those kind of margins on commodities unless you're price colluding. Cloud trivially can't be more expensive than on-prem. Cloud is just on-prem at scale where they sell you the leftovers.