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the benefit of the cloud is the elasticity. People neglect sometimes that businesses had to scale their infrastructure to peak demand before the cloud. If your
by locococo 3y ago
the benefit of the cloud is the elasticity.
People neglect sometimes that businesses had to scale their infrastructure to peak demand before the cloud.
If your workloads don't have peaks it's an easy problem to solve.
- jmathai 3y agoWe had to purchase/lease HP storage servers with 10x the storage we needed for our photo startup in 2006. The lead time to get a server was weeks so there was very little elasticity to respond to non linear growth. Would have been a lot easier if we had S3 (launched around this time, no one really knew about it or what it was).