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>You are not Dropbox That may actually work the opposite way. The big guys can negotiate pricing with the cloud providers to the point where they may be runnin
by macspoofing 6y ago
>You are not Dropbox
That may actually work the opposite way. The big guys can negotiate pricing with the cloud providers to the point where they may be running at close to cost. It's the small and mid tiers that get hosed with cloud pricing.
>You personally need to run the numbers with both scenarios. Depending on your use case, it may be cheaper to be in AWS
I'm not sure about that. Certainly cloud infrastructure provides a level of flexibility which may be advantageous if you're going through high rate of growth. Outside of that, I'm not sure you'd see any cost savings.
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- vinay_ys 6y agoIn fact it is easier to get bigger discounts if you are a mid-size customer than if you are a big customer. If you are a very big customer, then any discount given to you will directly affect the cloud business bottomline. A public cloud inherently/structurally has more costs because it is built to be truly multi-tenant and has lots of elastic capacity. A single tenant private cloud can cut out a lot of bells and whistles and can be tailored to the needs of the company's private use-case – this brings down the cost significantly. If your compute/storage bill is greater than $10 million per year, then it is highly likely that for the same money you will get much higher compute/storage capacity in a private cloud. And that gives you more headroom for growth/elasticity etc. If your bill is greater than $30 million per year, then you will likely save significantly as well as get other strategic advantages – especially if your infra scale continues to grow over next 2-5 years.