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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by pc86 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:50PM (#23009736)
Name one thing on the cloud that isn't more expensive compared to owning the hardware and having the expertise to do it yourself?
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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by scarface74 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @02:26PM (#23010153)
It depends on both what you are optimizing for. People cost money. If you can trade enough of your time by having a cloud provider do the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” to focus on your core competency, then it makes sense to use a provider.

For instance it didn’t make sense for DropBox to stay on Amazon but it did make sense for Netflix.

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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by qvrjuec on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:32PM (#23011601)
If time=money, scaling your hardware.
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