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To farm out to cloud computing resources? Very expensive. It isn’t surprising to me that a company with a massive and known compute load would choose to pack th
by bdamm 5y ago
To farm out to cloud computing resources? Very expensive. It isn’t surprising to me that a company with a massive and known compute load would choose to pack that compute resource as efficiently as possible. Supercomputers are still a business.
- dannyw 5y agoCloud computing is also like 100-200% surcharged, even after volume discounting. If you are not rapidly growing with uncertainty over resource requirements, you're going to get far better financial outcomes by taking your infra in-house. Example: Uber.
- tetsuto 5y agoI'd slightly disagree with this - the real benefits from cloud are in the things you don't need to do. If you're just using the cloud as a normal datacentre (but in another location) you're not going to have a good time. EG using a managed Database as opposed to rolling your own saves on patching, management etc...
- dannyw 5y agoIf you're not rapidly growing and are paying millions in cloud compute, you should hire your own infra team and start managing your own database, so you can save millions of dollars.