The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox

Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by kelp on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:46PM (#27309547)

Also in my experience, on-prem infra, on relatively cheap gear like Dell servers is highly reliable.

Yes, you have to plan, yes you have long lead times to get new gear, DC space, etc. But once it's running, failure rates are pretty low. At least in the single digit thousands and servers.

I've had to deal with much more frequent and odd types of failures on cloud infra than with on-prem.

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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by jandrewrogers on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:37PM (#27309958)

My experience matches yours. Bulk inexpensive hardware that you can buy by the pallet is consistently very reliable over several years in my experience. I've had more reliability issues with gold-plated "enterprise" hardware and cloud services in practice.

Supply chain management and coordination is, IMHO, the most difficult part of it and is often overlooked in these discussions. Herding vendors to deliver hardware on your timeline from overseas supply chains doesn't always turn out the way you want, even with the best planning.

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