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Re:The Eternal Mainframe (2013) by jl6 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @01:56AM (#20884205)
If the cost of all cloud services is similar, then maybe that’s just what it costs to run a cloud service? That’s not high markup, that’s just cloud being more expensive than on-prem. Or are you suggesting price collusion to maintain artificially high profits?
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Re:The Eternal Mainframe (2013) by scottlocklin on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:42AM (#20887143)
The latter is obviously the case. Look at their profit margins! You don't get those kind of margins on commodities unless you're price colluding.

Cloud trivially can't be more expensive than on-prem. Cloud is just on-prem at scale where they sell you the leftovers.

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