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You're paying for someone elses profit monthly with the cloud. It has to cost more.

• koreth1 4y ago
  Beyond a certain scale, sure. But at small scale, you can completely avoid hiring an ops team, or hire a much smaller one, which can more than offset the cloud provider price premium. My current company works in a niche market with a smallish number of large customers, so our scaling needs are modest. Our total AWS bill is about a third the annual salary of a single ops person. There's gotta be a very long tail of companies like mine for whom outsourcing to cloud vendors is cheaper than self-hosting.
• weq 4y ago
  Depends on the industry and barrier of entry. If your in one with alot of compliance overheads your are outsourcing alot more them compute and storage to your cloud provider. Hiring inhouse in that same case its extremely expensive unless you are over a certain size. This article seems written by someone who gets excited by shiney objects / hype trains.
• Longwelwind 4y ago
  What if someone's else profit is due to economies of scale?
• waynesonfire 4y ago
  With like 40-50% margins too.