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Cloud pricing is often not competitive with an optimized on-prem platform that has noteworthy resource usage. It is wild to think some people see it as a cure a

• tomjen3 4y ago
  The resource usage is not too bad, but the fees all the cloud charges for bandwidth are insane. Charging bandwidth in gigabytes should get you laughed out of the room. I have an unmetered connection at home; if you cannot provide one in your own data center, why are you even in business? That said, the cloud is great if you need to train AI models, convert old data, do end-of-year processing, or do something else that requires a massive amount of resources for a short time. Unless you are Howard Huges, why would you live in a hotel? And if you wouldn't live in a hotel yourself, why would you pay to have your data live there?
  • ilyt 4y ago
    The price per GB aside from obvious (earns more money) have other reason; it's just so much easier to meter when you have hundreds different services. You just increase the counter. You don't have to worry when service sent data. How much BW the service actually costs is hard to calculate because you are essentially buying peak capacity, so only thing that matters is that hour in a day where there is peak traffic and which services use that up. Sure there is a bit on power used flipping actual bits in the network devices but that's tiny fraction of that.