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For big companies such as banks this cost comparison is not as straight forward. They have whole data centres just sitting there for disaster recovery. They per
by dfgdfg34545456 3y ago
For big companies such as banks this cost comparison is not as straight forward. They have whole data centres just sitting there for disaster recovery. They periodically do switchovers to test DR. All of this expense goes away when they migrate to cloud.
- nightfly 3y ago> All of this expense goes away when they migrate to cloud. Just to pay someone else enough money to provide the same service and make a profit while do it
- dfgdfg34545456 3y agoWell corporations pay printers to do their printing because they don't want to be in the business of printing. It's the same with infrastructure, a lot of corporations simply don't want to be in the data centre business.
- jabradoodle 3y agoThat's how nearly every aspect of every business works; would you you start a bakery by learning construction and building it yourself?
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoConstruction is a one time cost. It infrastructure is in constant use. It's like accounting and finance. Yeah a lot of companies use tax firms, but they all have finance and accounting in-house.
- jabradoodle 3y agoI don't think that's the important distinction, lots of ongoing costs are outsourced. Amazon may have their own shipping fleet, most retailers of smaller scale pay someone else to do it for profit.
- graemep 3y ago> All of this expense goes away when they migrate to cloud. They need to replicate everything in multiple availability zones, which is going to be more expensive than replicating data centres. They still need to test their cloud infrastracuture works.