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Great feature, but cloud providers are incentivised to make it difficult for people to save money. This would instantly vaporise a big chunk of revenue, because

by lifty 4y ago

Great feature, but cloud providers are incentivised to make it difficult for people to save money. This would instantly vaporise a big chunk of revenue, because people would not have to pay for pre-provisioned storage.

advisedwang 4y ago
Maybe one of the lower tier providers should use it as a differentiator.
- djbusby 4y ago
  Why add a low margin feature to your product/service?
  - bo0tzz 4y ago
    Because it draws in customers that will then also use your higher margin features.
  - discodave 4y ago
    Amazon historically has gone after 'low margin' businesses. The cloud, at 25% margins (for AWS) is is 'low margin' compared to traditional software sales.
pgwhalen 4y ago
> Great feature, but cloud providers are incentivised to make it difficult for people to save money. Every business is incentivized this way. Competition is what pushes prices down, of which there is plenty in the cloud industry (though maybe still not as much as we would like).
thinkmassive 4y ago
AWS EBS volumes used by a PVC can be expanded without downtime by increasing the request on the PVC. The only prerequisite is that the StorageClass has allowVolumeExpansion=true Edit: Now that I actually read TFA I see it mentions most CSI drivers already provide this functionality. They provide a workaround similar to what I’m sure most people use, and I agree this functionality seems like it could be handled by StatefulSet.
waynesonfire 4y ago
Yep, the cloud long term is a terrible investment. Due to its sticky nature innovation in technology is seldom passed down to consumers and instead is pocketed by the provider. I guarantee you internally cloud providers over provision their storage.