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AWS 20% Y-o-Y growth.... My take away from this is cloud compute utilization is still in its infancy and will continue to grow faster than most sectors of the t

AWS 20% Y-o-Y growth.... My take away from this is cloud compute utilization is still in its infancy and will continue to grow faster than most sectors of the tech economy. There's still a lot of stuff on-prem, but new deployments are mostly cloud and that trend will continue. As people get more used to cloud-native deployments, they'll see the value in rented compute instead of leased CPUs. It just seems like too good of a bargain (even with the high prices of AWS) to use them instead of self hosting. You need less engineers, you get pre-built tech stacks and there is a major reduction in support burden.

xkqd 4y ago
> My take away from this is cloud compute utilization is still in its infancy and will continue to grow faster than most sectors of the tech economy. There's still a lot of stuff on-prem, but new deployments are mostly cloud and that trend will continue. So what I’m curious about is whether the growth is actually in transitioning from onprem to cloud, or existing cloud consumers requiring more infrastructure. I know we’ve been throwing more and more compute at our scalability problems rather than optimizing what we have.
- kypro 4y ago
  I've wondered the same. Anecdotally every company I've worked for in recent years made the move to cloud years ago, but every year they require more infrastructure. I'd actually be surprised if most of the growth in cloud was coming from companies migrating at this point. From my personal experience it would seem more likely that most of the growth would come from the growing demand in digital infrastructure, not demand for cloud per-say. > I know we’ve been throwing more and more compute at our scalability problems rather than optimizing what we have. On this point, I've noticed that cloud has made it so much easier to add infrastructure that companies will now do it without really thinking. For better or worse hardware is no longer the constraint it used to be.
- SkipperCat 4y ago
  I think the driver is new deployments. If you're starting from scratch, you'll probably start with the cloud. New companies are created all the time and old companies tech ages out. I'm guessing when faced with a new deployment, the three main cloud vendors will be the road taken. Everything either starts or ages out at some time and is created.replaced with something new, and when that happens, its going to be in the cloud.

xkqd 4y ago

> My take away from this is cloud compute utilization is still in its infancy and will continue to grow faster than most sectors of the tech economy. There's still a lot of stuff on-prem, but new deployments are mostly cloud and that trend will continue. So what I’m curious about is whether the growth is actually in transitioning from onprem to cloud, or existing cloud consumers requiring more infrastructure. I know we’ve been throwing more and more compute at our scalability problems rather than optimizing what we have.

kypro 4y ago
I've wondered the same. Anecdotally every company I've worked for in recent years made the move to cloud years ago, but every year they require more infrastructure. I'd actually be surprised if most of the growth in cloud was coming from companies migrating at this point. From my personal experience it would seem more likely that most of the growth would come from the growing demand in digital infrastructure, not demand for cloud per-say. > I know we’ve been throwing more and more compute at our scalability problems rather than optimizing what we have. On this point, I've noticed that cloud has made it so much easier to add infrastructure that companies will now do it without really thinking. For better or worse hardware is no longer the constraint it used to be.
SkipperCat 4y ago
I think the driver is new deployments. If you're starting from scratch, you'll probably start with the cloud. New companies are created all the time and old companies tech ages out. I'm guessing when faced with a new deployment, the three main cloud vendors will be the road taken. Everything either starts or ages out at some time and is created.replaced with something new, and when that happens, its going to be in the cloud.