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> The on-prem to cloud migration took decades for most (and is still ongoing for many!) The real question whether any migration to cloud was really necessary,
by sebazzz 2y ago
> The on-prem to cloud migration took decades for most (and is still ongoing for many!)
The real question whether any migration to cloud was really necessary, or even a cost saving in the end.
Cloud could be considered a brain drain, in a sense.
- mjr00 2y agoThat question has been answered; cloud has been unambiguously a huge win. There are a select few companies where their business makes more sense to use on-prem rather than cloud, but those are the exception. For most, it's outsourcing a non-core business function at a fraction of the cost. If there were a tariff-induced mass migration off AWS/GCP/Azure by enterprises, it would be to a competing cloud vendor, not back to on-prem.
- graemep 2y ago> That question has been answered; cloud has been unambiguously a huge win. Evidence for that?
- mjr00 2y agoShort answer: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/revenue https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/revenu... Long answer: There's no movement among major businesses to move off cloud providers, only putting more stuff onto. Every "we moved our stuff back on-prem and saved tons of money!" post I see on HN is from companies with miniscule (<$10k/month) cloud spend anyway. For transparency, I have some bias since I worked at AWS. But the biggest competitors we saw while I was there were other cloud providers, not people moving back on-prem.