> In the old days of on-premise software, delivering a product meant stamping out and shipping physical media – the cost of running the software, whether on ser

> In the old days of on-premise software, delivering a product meant stamping out and shipping physical media – the cost of running the software, whether on servers or desktops, was borne by the buyer. Today, with the dominance of SaaS, that cost has been pushed back to the vendor. Most software companies pay big AWS or Azure bills every month – the more demanding the software, the higher the bill. This irrational sheep mentality amuses me. Yes, tehre are some very specific cases where AWS & ca. is clearly a better choice, but for the most cases I saw the TCO with hosting it on premises or renting servers is much lower, sometimes by an order of magnitude (in some cases even more). But people insist on doing it because others do it. We'll soon have an entire generation of engineers completely hooked on AWS & co. and not even realizing other solutions are possible, not to mention lower TCO.