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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by Retric on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:25AM (#24968392)
Cloud companies are useful as long as you want what their selling. The best case is needing say 2 TB of ram for some workload or test that only going to take a few hours.

Or something like the Olympics where 95% of your demand comes in a predictable spike across a few days.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by chasd00 on Monday November 02, 2020 @12:44PM (#24970795)
very true, the original selling point for Cloud was instant upgrade/downgrade as needed. That was the original amazing thing, dials that said RAM and CPU you could turn up or turn down.
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