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Will they really get much cloud pricing advantage? Cloud compute is extremely expensive compared to bare metal hosting. That would suggest that cpu cost is not
by jjeaff 6y ago
Will they really get much cloud pricing advantage?
Cloud compute is extremely expensive compared to bare metal hosting. That would suggest that cpu cost is not a leading factor in their pricing decisions.
- rbanffy 6y agoCloud computing is expensive compared to bare metal for sustained workloads. If you have a bursty load, you'll need to provision metal for the bursts that'll lay idle the rest of the time. On average, cloud will be cheaper.
- jjeaff 6y agoI disagree that cloud would be cheaper on average. Unless the burstiness is very, very bursty. And even in that case, you are going to need a lot of special stuff in place in the cloud to handle huge bursts since few cloud service actually scale automatically.