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The promise of cloud scalability never really materialized in the way that people talk about. The value in cloud today is really in hosted services. Why have lo
by qeternity 5y ago
The promise of cloud scalability never really materialized in the way that people talk about. The value in cloud today is really in hosted services. Why have loads of exports for different supporting infra if you can just lease them from AWS through a hosted service.
If you look at what it would cost to run bare metal with top shelf companies, it's often as cheap or cheaper than spot/preemptible instances at the cloud shops.
- mdale 5y agoThis... modern architectures for mid sized companies are a combination of hosted services. I still have bad dreams when I look back a on prem Swift stack object store project took years to stand up & integrate all to have a much higher TCO and self manage a bunch of out of date s3 translation libraries. It was a system that had fixed scale, high licencing costs and did not bridge well into software that increasingly leveraging the AWS environment. Egress was least of our worries relative to integration complexity in services ecosystem. You have to be a very very large scale before self managed services make sense; as you suffer at integration layers for every developer that is even an inch off the well beaten path.