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So now the trend is away from cloud ? What about a good way to to judge the cost of the cloud - pricing has always been overly complex and arcane and full of g

• Macha 3y ago
  Honestly the relative clarity of what cloud costs has been one of the advantages that companies want to pay a premium for, compared to the quagmire of capex, depreciation, attribution of datacenter costs, and interdepartmental chargebacks that on prem usually means. I suspect fewer cloud migrations would occur if companies could map their onprem costs to specific products much more easily rather than going "Oh it might be a lot for this team but who knows?", which opens the room to someone to sell the pricing transparency use case to an exec.
  • nine_k 3y ago
    Now you can operate your own local cloud (Dokku, Rancher, Proxmox, VMWare, MinIO, k8s, you name it). This gives you all the simplicity of deployment and accountability, and some elasticity. It adds a bit of ops complexity at the start though. But running your own rack starts to make sense when your AWS bill is at least the same order of magnitude as an SRE salary; at that point, you already have needs that are varied enough.