The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox

Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by nemothekid on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:01PM (#27309105)

>The paradox is that in spite of the huge costs, very large companies are still moving to (or using) the cloud.

In my experience when a large corporation moves to the cloud it has less to do with pricing and more to do flexibility. It's easier to get a budget from IT and do whatever you want in cloud, then to have to wait weeks/months putting in a PO for hardware, getting access to those machines and installing what you want.

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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by throwawayboise on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:23PM (#27309323)

This is true. Where I work a PO was issued several weeks ago for a rack of servers, and delivery will be in about 3 months. If cost were no object, those resouces could be provisioned with a cloud provider today. And getting from requirements to RFQ to PO took another 3-4 months.

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