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I dunno, to me the argument is basically, "We can outcompete our competitors and the cloud provides at once". I doubt it, actually, because it requires 37 Signa

I dunno, to me the argument is basically, "We can outcompete our competitors and the cloud provides at once". I doubt it, actually, because it requires 37 Signals to make tradeoffs against their primary business, which is whatever people actually pay them for, in favour of something which is not their primary business, i.e. running a cloud platform. But sure, if all they buy from AWS is VMs, may be better.

pclmulqdq 3y ago
The trick is that 99% of the engineering expense at cloud providers is to enable weird multi-tenancy use cases and scale to obscene size. You don't have to do either of those if you run your own hardware - your infrastructure can be quite simple.