> 9 cents per gigabyte out if you’re lucky - that’s a startling price. For plain S3. Other methods have lower prices. All methods have automatic volume disco

> 9 cents per gigabyte out if you’re lucky - that’s a startling price. For plain S3. Other methods have lower prices. All methods have automatic volume discounts and almost everyone has a free tier. > Machines are old and out of date and left behind. A problem I've seen on every single VM stack, regardless of where it is hosted. > Vendor lock-in is a real problem .. you probably can’t exit even if you want to. Build your model first, then map it into services, don't start with the services and map your model based on them. > And worse, clouds often don’t even have the computing resources you need with “requesting quota” and waiting for your “quota” to be granted some time in the next 24 hours, the opposite of elastic and scalable. I've only experienced this on services that have a potential for abuse. DNS and SMTP being all that I can remember. > Or buy a couple of fast fiber connections and buy some 16/32 core machines with 128 gig Ram. And "requesting quote" isn't a delay item here? I don't know anything about fiber, how to price it, or how to receive it... and the capitalization process on all this is going to eat up a bunch of my departments time. > And honestly it’s not hard to run modern Linux machines, that’s an old crones tale. It's much easier to just run a lambda. It's a great compute environment. It does 90% of everything I've ever needed.