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Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by snark42 on Monday October 21, 2019 @07:22PM (#21318681)
> It's generally a function of network cost versus infra cost, and so the 'equation' solves differently based on the longest tech cycles,

It used to be OpEx was easy, CapEx was hard to get approved. As people took advantage and OpEx went through the roof people are getting alot more pushback on reducing OpEx.

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Re:AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data by K0SM0S on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:34PM (#21329143)
Spoken like a true Chief Officer.

Pushing back on OpEx in favor of CapEx might be seen as a more long-term strategy too. Basically rent vs purchase, even for deprecating assets like infosys, as I think the current DevOps trend (scaling in pure software, virtualization, etc) makes it easier than ever to squeeze every last FLOP on-premises.

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