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There are "clouds" with lower networking costs, like Digitalocean/linode. But they are not "capable" enough to support a sizable company. Actually, networking i

There are "clouds" with lower networking costs, like Digitalocean/linode. But they are not "capable" enough to support a sizable company. Actually, networking is like a "tax" on top of the whole platform. One of the real problems is that cloud providers can just waive cross-AZ traffic for their own managed services but charge a lot for cloud customers.

ddorian43 4y ago
> One of the real problems is that cloud providers can just waive cross-AZ traffic for their own managed services but charge a lot for cloud customers. That is why no matter how smart your software is they'll always have the upper hand and build things better themselves (why everybody using the BSL license).
- googletron 4y ago
  There is one administrator. I always found that fallacy the hardest to realize. It’s like owning the entire supply chain. I remember this bit from someone who used to work at Heroku. It’s impossible for us to switch we spent so much time making the system work with AWS, switching or adding another provider would be a kin to starting over.