To me the IT people who bought into cloud hosting are the same type that would gladly buy a vacation time share: you end up paying too much to rent a slice of a

To me the IT people who bought into cloud hosting are the same type that would gladly buy a vacation time share: you end up paying too much to rent a slice of a resource that is never really yours, when you could've used that same money to outright own something much better. When people tell me how great their vacation time share they "own" is I ask how often do they actually use it (3 weeks per year) and how much are they paying (a lot) then I point out that they could've booked first class air travel and a top floor penthouse at a 5 star hotel at a luxury destination for 3 weeks each year for far less money than their time share costs and fees. I'm glad someone is clearly pointing out that you can make the same case with cloud hosting vs. colo hosting. Why is owning physical hardware so scary all of the sudden? Dear Lord, is it really that difficult to rack a physical box and replace the hard drive once in a while? AWS marketing deserves a Gold Medal for Industry-wide Brainwashing. The cloud is a time share!