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Right 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
by VirusNewbie 3y ago
Right 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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