Simple example: For one of my projects, I needed to host 16+TB worth of satellite imagery and elevation. I put a machine together with 24GB Ram, raid5, and 8 co

Simple example: For one of my projects, I needed to host 16+TB worth of satellite imagery and elevation. I put a machine together with 24GB Ram, raid5, and 8 cores for around 3800. I pay $200 a month for unlimited bandwith (and I still have 2Us that I am not using). I got pricing from rackspace, amazon, go grid, etc. Nobody came remotely close to that price. For most of my other projects, I always use Amazon. But for this use case, there was no challenge by any other cloud/hybrid cloud service.