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Good example of peering! I'd missed that. There's a difference with the pre-cloud world. When you ran your own datacenter and some new tech came along, you cou

by aristus 18y ago

Good example of peering! I'd missed that. There's a difference with the pre-cloud world. When you ran your own datacenter and some new tech came along, you could buy it from many vendors and make it work (compatibility issues aside). If all of your operations are in cloud A but only cloud B has some new thing, you cannot use it until your vendor decides to build their own. The time and cost to send data around is too high. Amazon's pricing is justifiable but they are very aware of the implications.

wmf 18y ago
When you ran your own datacenter and some new tech came along, you could buy it from many vendors and make it work. If all of your operations are in cloud A but only cloud B has some new thing, you cannot use it Ah yes, this bundling is a big pain and will probably get bigger as different cloud platforms diverge. That's why I prefer as-low-level-as-possible IaaS where most of the interesting functionality is in software; this will probably never be as granular and easy to use as PaaS though.