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> These cloud providers are by definition, charging you more than it would cost you to run it yourself That's totally non-obvious and certainly false in most
by elcomet 4y ago
> These cloud providers are by definition, charging you more than it would cost you to run it yourself
That's totally non-obvious and certainly false in most cases. Cloud providers have huge economies of scale, which certainly makes it less expensive to use cloud if you factor in all your costs related to running it yourself.
This is like saying buying furniture is more expensive than making your own furniture because they have a profit margin. Even if you don't account for your own time, it will certainly be false as you'll pay your raw materials much more.
- thehappypm 4y agoThe furniture example is great. If I wanted to build an Ikea table from scratch, I could not do it for less than the $20 they charge, given the cost of materials available to me, and the fact that I can’t buy a cup of paint for $2.
- unity1001 4y ago> which certainly makes it less expensive to use cloud AWS would pass that difference to Amazon shareholders than passing them to you.