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As the CTO of an established company, I cannot imagine a situation where I would prefer to maintain my own infrastructure vs using managed cloud services. If I
by haolez 7y ago
As the CTO of an established company, I cannot imagine a situation where I would prefer to maintain my own infrastructure vs using managed cloud services.
If I get locked in on a specific product, it's way cheaper to redesign that around an alternative vendor than it is to maintain a private cloud (Ansible, Kubernetes and friends included).
As a nerd, I'd prefer to do things myself, but I have business needs to attend to.
- modoc 7y agoCost. Depending on your scale and needs, running stuff on real hardware you manage can be a lot cheaper than AWS/GCP.
- xref 7y agoJust depends on workload. Especially if your biz is bandwidth intensive that can be your largest single line item on the major clouds. Then you gotta pay engineers to find ways to reduce your bandwidth costs and the snake eats its own tail
- apple4ever 7y agoPerformance, cost, security. For small businesses, it may be a wash (due to ability to hire system engineers), but for medium to large business rolling your own is almost always better.