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The cloud is much more than that. The premium you pay for a cloud service is - Ability to scale up and scale down in a matter of minutes. - Reduction in va
by kumarvvr 4y ago
The cloud is much more than that. The premium you pay for a cloud service is
- Ability to scale up and scale down in a matter of minutes.
- Reduction in variable capital costs required to meet peak demand.
- Ability to test and prototype products or services at scale without significant investments.
- Ability to have, on tap, products and services that in a traditional sense, would take a lot of time and manpower (A company can invest in equipment and manpower to spin a few services. But as you add more services, it costs more and more to build and maintain such systems. With cloud services, you can use, test and experiment before finalizing)
- friendzis 4y ago> Reduction in variable capital costs required to meet peak demand. If I understand your point correctly it is the opposite - cloud not only lets you trade capex for opex, but also allows for opex variance. Yes, clouds do let you scale up and down (if the application is designed to do that) easily, however how many businesses do really have high load and geography variability? That is the core point behind cloud vs on-prem: capex vs opex and opex variance.