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I've been a cloud skeptic for over a decade and I've essentially been wondering the whole time if the Emperor is wearing any clothes. There are niches where clo

I've been a cloud skeptic for over a decade and I've essentially been wondering the whole time if the Emperor is wearing any clothes. There are niches where cloud is pretty cool, but the push to move all infrastructure to the cloud seems like a mix of good marketing on the part of providers and a lot of hype/resume-driven development. But once you've put all your infrastructure and data into someone else's control, you've handed them a powerful lever over you, and to think that they won't use that to extract every dollar they can is rather naive.

talldayo 2y ago
I look at it in basically the other direction, though I agree that the outcomes of a cloud-dominated industry are still bad. The Internet favors development velocity over everything else; the faster you get your product out, the faster you succeed. Pretty much any cloud infrastructure could be colocated or hosted on-prem with enough dedicated engineers setting it all up, but the constraint will always be velocity. That's why hyperscalars are popular and refuse to budge even with good self-hosting options like Oxide. People that eschew the flexibility of the cloud end up struggling with far more problems than their effort is worth. It's still worth being skeptical of it all, but I feel like it's a post-cloud world and we're all just living in it. Online businesses suck now because they have to be more paranoid and insidious than their cloud providers are to them.