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I'm not saying it never happens, but I've never seen moving to AWS (or Azure, GCP, etc.) save in people costs at any tech company with a large resource footprin
by runlevel1 5y ago
I'm not saying it never happens, but I've never seen moving to AWS (or Azure, GCP, etc.) save in people costs at any tech company with a large resource footprint. It just shifted where the time is spent and who had to spend it.
The public cloud and managed services work great for the most common use cases, but go outside those and you start having to engineer around limitations.
If you have a sizable footprint in any given dimension you're trading one complexity for another.
- bombcar 5y agoThe "who had to spend it" is huge - companies love paying providers and hate paying people/depreciating costs.
- markus_zhang 5y agoCuriously our company moved from AWS to on-premise a couple of years ago. Something about CAPEX -> OPEX was mentioned back then.
- bombcar 5y agoThat's the second part of the loop, when the cost of AWS is high enough that you can show immediate dollar savings by bringing it in-house.
- markus_zhang 5y agoYeah, that was a bit more than one year before we filed for IPO :)
- walrus01 5y ago> hate paying depreciating costs. One possible solution for this if you want to do it as bare metal you control, is leased equipment (even with $1 buyout at end of term), which can be accounted for differently than purchasing it up front.