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I worked with IBM at one time, who were convinced that they could build a real time workload arbitrage system, whereby loads could instantly move from one cloud
by kjellsbells 2y ago
I worked with IBM at one time, who were convinced that they could build a real time workload arbitrage system, whereby loads could instantly move from one cloud to another based on spot price rates offered by cloud providers. Nice idea that quickly ran into the reality of platform stickiness (and sweet reserved-instance pricing).
- ghaff 2y agoYeah. In my prior analyst stint, there was a lot of automagical cloudbursting talk (and migration between clouds quickly based on pricing). In addition to the platform stickiness you mention, there was the matter of, as Scotty would have said: You canna change the laws of physics.