Re:The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox
by Too on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:13AM
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The paradox is the sunken cost of your product easily becoming coupled to the cloud.
Moving office is relatively simple, you call a moving company to lift all your chairs, print new business cards, hire a bigger maintenance crew and it's done within a week.
Moving cloud could in worst case mean a 6 month complete rewrite of your core product depending on how much dependent you are to CosmosDB, Lambda or other shiny AWS stuff.
You could say buying a machine you previously rented is the same thing but when looking at code migrations, rewrites and launching new infrastructure cost time from R&D, not just money.
Moving office is relatively simple, you call a moving company to lift all your chairs, print new business cards, hire a bigger maintenance crew and it's done within a week.
Moving cloud could in worst case mean a 6 month complete rewrite of your core product depending on how much dependent you are to CosmosDB, Lambda or other shiny AWS stuff.
You could say buying a machine you previously rented is the same thing but when looking at code migrations, rewrites and launching new infrastructure cost time from R&D, not just money.