The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox

Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by jameshart on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:09PM (#27310222)

Running in house, you need to know what you want, and you need to be pretty accurate in your estimate. And you need to pay today for what you're going to need in six months, a year, three years.

And if you're wrong about those estimates, the costs are real. Overinvested in hardware upfront and your project will never break even. Underinvest, and when the marketing campaign kicks in and you get flattened on cybermonday, there is no limit to how much revenue you might miss out on.

I'm willing to pay more money to reduce the downside of my being wrong. Cloud services offer so much flexibility that I don't even have to make guesses about some things beyond my information horizon.

On prem might be cheaper but it is far from an equivalent service.

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Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox by Retric on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:25PM (#27311415)

You don’t need to be particularly accurate. The cloud is so expensive you have plenty of wiggle room while saving money. Worst case you can still use that hardware on another project. Going the other way adding more hardware 6 months out is generally trivial.

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