remember, price != cost. pricing has many other influences. Interesting conundrum however that the author discusses, that the gigaom link does not. At first g

remember, price != cost. pricing has many other influences. Interesting conundrum however that the author discusses, that the gigaom link does not. At first glance this may appear that big consumers would be better off with their own hardware long term since they could theoretically follow the moore curve, but the missing piece is the cost of ownership AND cost of staying on the curve(since the curve keeps falling, you're continuously upgrading) Next up is to build such that you can treat all cloud hosts as a commodity. Continuously monitoring pricing and loads and moving large amounts of instances from one provider to the next to optimize your costs.