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Elasticity is a gamble. You're betting that you can save more money investing in an elastic/on demand stack than what you'd pay for static resources. Judging
by candiddevmike 4y ago
Elasticity is a gamble. You're betting that you can save more money investing in an elastic/on demand stack than what you'd pay for static resources. Judging by how much the cloud providers push this, the unknown cost to create/maintain auto scaling infra/apps, and how intricate the pricing gets with elastic resources/spots/faas, I still think the cloud providers are coming out ahead vs folks using static compute.
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoNot really. You're paying extra to not have to think about how many static resources to allocate in advance. For a mature business, that tradeoff probably isn't worth it, but for a startup, the opportunity cost is too high. Spending a lot on cost optimization doesn't make sense; you are better off spending on growing income.