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Cloud is not cheap. You trade "waste", and high up-front cost, for a significantly hightened sustained cost. You trade setting up systems and proper prior pla
by dijit 3y ago
Cloud is not cheap.
You trade "waste", and high up-front cost, for a significantly hightened sustained cost.
You trade setting up systems and proper prior planning for understanding proprietary interfaces and understanding cost systems.
It's too far to say it's a scam: it's a trade-off.
There are much cheaper on-prem solutions and there are cheaper cloud systems.
The difference is that the cloud ones TCO is only lower at either absurdly small volumes or absurdly spiky loads (IE; a website that only operates at full load for 3hrs a day and is otherwise under 1 request per hour)
- BizarroLand 3y agoThe savings is with not having to deal with HR to manage the people hired to keep your local systems up and running. The tradeoff is that if you have a sudden hit event you may simply not have the raw horsepower to handle the influx, but you also can't be hit with surprise $100k+ bills for a configuration mistake.