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I've assumed this for a while, because so many companies appear to be doing this - do you have any links to the tax savings as I'd like to understand this in mo

• rbanffy 6y ago
  If you don't need what cloud providers offer you, from hosted databases, access control, blue-green deployment, load balancing, auto-scaling, multiple detacenters, etc, there is little point in going with something like AWS. OTOH, if you decide to do it yourself, you'll need to engineer a lot of what you need. That costs time and money. In the very low-end, it's cheaper to go bare VM. As size and complexity grows, it'll be cheaper to go with a cloud provider for a while, until you reach a point where you have so much infrastructure and so many services running that moving parts of it to on-prem will be the cheapest option. At this point, you will be your own little AWS.
• NoOneNew 6y ago
  A good base search would be "lease vs buy equipment tax benefits" for your country/state/city, just to get your feet wet. There are different incentives for different areas. From there, you should be able to google fu around for more information/tips/tricks. It's slightly not-straightforward stuff, but it's not terribly complicated after a little bit of reading. However, there's a reason why tax code books are so dense. When in doubt, ask someone qualified that's smarter than me, CPA or whatever else accountants get for certs.
  • disgruntledphd2 6y ago
    Thank you!