I work for a company that does not use any kind of cloud services on the basis that they could be in a situation where there's no money to pay the monthly bill. So we buy servers, equipment, licenses, etc. It's insane. We spend a lot of time implementing open source solutions that are half-baked.

Any cost analysis would clearly show what we do is inneficient but fear trumps it all.

We use some nonessential cloud services to fill in a few gaps where I am at, mainly an email gateway and VPS. So in actuality I agree with some of the other comment.

But what I've found, in minimizing our dependencies on the cloud, is that for a small increase in implementation time (which isnt so bad because, again, people actually know what they're doing after some training) we have almost zero problems that we can't immediately go back and fix ourselves. And my shit gets done on time, and under budget.

edit: Also, resiliency is a legitimate business concern/objective. Sucks that you can't blame any problems on cloud providers tho :)

This is assuming your time is worth $0. It took me a long time and a lot of waste before I realised that sometimes it's easier to pay.

Same old arguments. If you know what you're doing it doesn't take so long, a lot of this tech stuff is made to be more complex than it really is. Our field has been overrun with people who seem to love to overcomplexify this stuff so as to justify their position and budgets.

What a jobs program the cloud is!