Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
by StreamBright on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:03AM
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If I use S3 + EMR what exactly falls into the category of "a ton of stuff there that you probably don’t use"?
>> Your infra would be better tailored to your workloads
How do you scale elastically with an on-prem infra? What part do you tune more to your own workload when an average company cannot even tune the GC for Java for their own workload?
Your claims do not reflect on reality, it is rather your imagination. I have migrated countless companies to the cloud, and almost every single migration was driven by a single factor: cost. Everything else was an added bonus: inscrased security, availability and elasticity.
>> Your infra would be better tailored to your workloads
How do you scale elastically with an on-prem infra? What part do you tune more to your own workload when an average company cannot even tune the GC for Java for their own workload?
Your claims do not reflect on reality, it is rather your imagination. I have migrated countless companies to the cloud, and almost every single migration was driven by a single factor: cost. Everything else was an added bonus: inscrased security, availability and elasticity.