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Interesting. Maybe also add a "reliability" cost, so something like S3 would be more reliable than a more complex system like RedShift.
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Interesting.
Maybe also add a "reliability" cost, so something like S3 would be more reliable than a more complex system like RedShift.
- rexreed 4y agoExactly. The cloud orientation that differentiates from a non-cloud orientation is not simply a matter of execution abstraction -- that is already handled through libraries and scripts, etc. What would be cloud-oriented are the economic aspects of the cloud. I usually tell people that the cloud is really two separate ideas: the abstraction of infrastructure and computing on the one hand (what used to be called "grid computing") and the economic model of pay-per-consumption, pay-per-use, pay-per-service that shifts capital expenses (the stuff you own and have already paid for that depreciates over time) to operating expenses (stuff you have to keep paying to use). The CIOs like the technology on-demand, easy scale-up/scale-down aspects of the cloud while the CFOs like the idea of shifting CapEx to OpEx and pay as you go aspects of the cloud.