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Is colocation the cloud now?
by Hikikomori 3y ago
Is colocation the cloud now?
- dspillett 3y agoYes. And no. Depending on what you mean by "cloud" how much kit you have in colo, and how you manage the resources of that kit. You can certainly use colo to provide the facilities most need from cloud infrastructure. Just stuffing a server in someone's rack isn't cloud, but larger installations are often managed in similar ways.
- mcny 3y agoI'd argue taking on prem applications and putting them in large (expensive) virtual machines on AWS ec2 or azure windows vm directly while postponing or deprioritizing any refactoring is not the cloud either.
- xmcqdpt2 3y agoAt work, there is a push to move on prem applications to cloud but as much as possible without changing any of the code. We end up basically renting expensive instances for significant period of time and recreating all the on prem services on them. So anyway, more like the reverse: cloud is colocation but expensive.