Quite frankly, "cloud" is a convenience and elasticity service at a steep premium, with downsides. Contrary to popular belief, it does not in the slightest sav

Quite frankly, "cloud" is a convenience and elasticity service at a steep premium, with downsides. Contrary to popular belief, it does not in the slightest save you a sysadmin (most just end up unknowingly giving the task to their developers). And contrary to popular belief, the perf/price ratio is atrocious compared to just buying servers. For some of the loads I had been doing the math for, I could rent a colo and buy a new beefy server every year with money to spare for the yearly cost of something approximating the performance in AWS...