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It's amazing how people don't see this. Using the clouds is just like renting. In the long term it's more expensive. Cloud operators are not charities.
by goodpoint 3y ago
It's amazing how people don't see this. Using the clouds is just like renting. In the long term it's more expensive. Cloud operators are not charities.
- greggsy 3y agoThey also need to renew infrastructure on a continual basis
- VirusNewbie 3y agoRight and if certain times of the year you need an eight bedroom house for a week, while other times a two bedroom is fine, then renting may be way cheaper than buying an eight bedroom house.
- Nextgrid 3y agoThis analogy doesn't really apply because thanks to bandwidth charges, it's uneconomical to have a 2-bed house (outside of the cloud) and occasionally rent the 8-bed in the cloud, so you're forced to also get the 2-bed one in the cloud and pay insane margins on that too.
- Null-Set 3y agoExtending this metaphor, I would then want to own my two bedroom home, and take a vacation to the rented mansion. Is there a well trodden way to serve most of your everyday traffic out of your own datacenter, but scale out to cloud infra when traffic peaks?
- Nextgrid 3y agoIt's doable but the egress bandwidth charges (which are there to prevent exactly this) from most clouds may negate any savings.
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- jeffbee 3y agoThat is actually the perfect analogy. It is exactly like rent vs buy housing discourse, in that many people harbor irrational preferences for buying even when renting is demonstrably cheaper.
- nologic01 3y agothe buying vs renting calculus depends on the respective prices and rates. now think what happens if the entire rentable stock of housing was owned by three companies.
- SoftTalker 3y agoYet many/most companies rent their offices or facilites, because they don't want to be in the property management business. It may cost more in the end, but it's more predictable and lower risk. I think the analogy works best for SaaS but not necessarily for PaaS in most cases.
- betaby 3y agoIt easy to move staff from the officeA to the officeB in the same city, in fact I witnessed such moves multiple times. However moving from AWS to Azure is not that easy at all!