Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
by samatman on Saturday February 15, 2020 @12:53PM
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Dropbox is a poor example to generalize from, since in a very real sense they're a cloud provider. They make bank directly on server administration, so cheaper servers translate directly to the bottom line. They would have to be incredibly foolish not to in-house this at some point.
Most SaaS etc. businesses make money in a way that is indirectly related to their server costs. Bringing the cost of servers down increases margin ceteris paribus, but the Latin is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
It's not at all clear to me that the median AWS customer can save money by going self-hosting. If I had to bet money on it, I'd bet against it.
Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
by oblio on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:44AM
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You should check infrastructure costs for band or other big enterprises... Those companies move to the cloud because it's cheaper...
Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
by cameronbrown on Saturday February 15, 2020 @02:11PM
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Startups are not the primary customer of cloud providers. Enterprises are - and arguably that's where all the money is.
It is much like the late 90's boom, when a lot of companies were selling banner ads to each other. Even the ones who appeared to be profitable weren't really, because all of their customers were not. Once the loss-making customers of cloud companies go away, the big three cloud companies may find that they don't have a business model either.