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extremely incorrect. The benefits of cloud grow as the company grows. I've been in a few mega companies that from colo infra to cloud infra, it was a huge cost
by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
extremely incorrect. The benefits of cloud grow as the company grows. I've been in a few mega companies that from colo infra to cloud infra, it was a huge cost savings and helped enormously with product development speed.
- shiftpgdn 5y agoI've never seen anyone save money by moving to AWS unless things were already a complete clusterfuck catastrophe.
- MattGaiser 5y agoIn my first job, it meant we got a dev back moving to Digital Ocean as they were no longer dealing with servers and infrastructure.
- shiftpgdn 5y agoDigital Ocean is a radically less complex offering than AWS.
- jaywalk 5y agoMy medium-sized company saved a considerable amount of money by moving to Azure from a managed dedicated server company. I wouldn't call the previous situation "a complete clusterfuck catastrophe" by any means, although I would say we were paying too much. Our Azure bill is just starting to approach what we were paying five years ago to the previous company, with far more things going on now plus all of the flexibility that The Cloud™ has to offer.