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Sounds like a great business opportunity for you that will make millions and millions.

• sgarland 3y ago
  Touché. I have no desire to start an IaaS company. However, if I ever launch a product, it will be running on my own hardware (to be clear, I own the hardware now; this isn’t a future CAPEX) until there is a clear financial incentive to not do so.
• vidarh 3y ago
  The challenge is selling it. I did devops contracting for years, and I gave my customers a standing offer: If they were not sure they'd save money, I'd guarantee they'd save money, including on my ongoing fees, if they moved to managed hosting instead of cloud, and I'd charge them a percentage of their savings over the first few months only to do the transition. Even in the face of that, and extensive spreadsheets, it was always a big challenge to convince people to try even with smaller parts of their services. AWS is a known entity. It's not a career risk. If something goes wrong, they have someone to blame. Of the ones that did take me up, one cut their costs (including the devops) by 90%. More typically 50%-70%. And you're making that effort to make far narrower margins.