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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by Znafon on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:02AM (#24968190)
Except that nearly all companies greater than a certain size have an engagement with AWS so they shifted CapEx to CapEx.
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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by please-reread on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:59AM (#24980170)
> shifted CapEx to CapEx

or in other words, shifted nothing?

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by Znafon on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:40AM (#25007193)
Yes, I think the CapEx argument often advanced by the marketing of AWS and C-levels and engineers of large companies moving to the Cloud is just something said to justify the decision and help everybody get on board with it, but I think the CapEx -> OpEx one is fallacious.

There is others reasons for example the flexibility, the managed services, etc. but I don't think this one makes sense.

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