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That is a bogus economic argument. There’s plenty of room in the equation for cloud operators to be profitable offering a product that is cheaper than on-prem.
by jeffbee 3y ago
That is a bogus economic argument. There’s plenty of room in the equation for cloud operators to be profitable offering a product that is cheaper than on-prem.
- Nextgrid 3y agoWhich in practice doesn't seem to be happening though. The cloud marketing/misinformation machine is working well enough that there's no point actually becoming cheaper than on-prem since the marketing is successfully convincing people to overpay.
- dathinab 3y agoyes but current AWS and similar mainly win through flexibility and services they provide not on cost for a immutable compute capacity. For that nearly always getting your own hardware is cheaper when you look at a time span of multiple years (but running it in a rented rack in a server center, there are services like that).