Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
by mmmBacon on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:10PM
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Sorry but that’s not correct. Have you ever looked at the economics of cloud compute at that scale? You absolutely are paying for a lot of tooling that’s irrelevant to your use case. This is because GCP has to be a general provider. They have to offer the broadest possible solution to capture as much share as possible. This means there are money losing services (also low margin) that are offered to provide a complete end-to-end solution. However, the fact that those services exist means that the cost has to be made up for elsewhere. These economics are not some complicated rocket science and exist in many other types of businesses.
This is the antithesis of any cloud. You only pay for what you use.
> At $5B it would not cost anywhere near that much to replicate.
If you can recreate GCP for $5B in capex, there are likely some VCs lurking here who would like a word with you.