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This entire article is flawed. The true value add of cloud services (AWS, etc) is that you no longer have to pay for disk jockeys to run a data center. To play
by packetlag 7y ago
This entire article is flawed. The true value add of cloud services (AWS, etc) is that you no longer have to pay for disk jockeys to run a data center. To play games with refreshing hundreds or thousands of pieces of bare metal every 3-4 years [EDIT] is to doom your company to crushing O&M.
If you've never done Datacenter operations, then you're missing a giant point that eliminating an entire department of expensive technical people is a huge gain long term.
- eloisant 7y agoHe is comparing big tech cloud to smaller hosting companies, like DigitalOcean and OVH, not to "run your own machines in your own data centers." He is talking about virtual machines.
- shiftpgdn 7y agoYou didn't read the article at all, did you?
- packetlag 7y agoRead it enough to consider his primise was flawed and to judge the article as such. Running other "cloud" providers on-prem is not a recommended unless you're in Gov or Financial. [EDIT] Comparing the other cloud providers is totally a valid exercise. Just disagree with the wording of his/her approach
- mlyle 7y ago?? All he's saying is that the cloud market leaders are able to charge more. That is, despite Amazon & Microsoft's & Google's economies of scale, there are much lower cost offerings for ordinary virtual machines and storage, all else being equal. It has nothing to do with on-prem.