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> 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
by 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.