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Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying by nojito on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @10:10AM (#29552357)
>Nope. With the cloud, the costs have went down for any large coMpany, even those that just moved the old crap to VMs running on someone elses hw.

Are you implying that there isn't idle cloud hardware?

Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying by acdha on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:53AM (#29553886)
There is, but there's less if you're using managed services where possible and it's visible in a way which wasn't true for many large organizations. I can go into any cloud provider's console and see a detailed breakdown of what I'm paying and why, and how much of it is over/under-utilized, but getting that same report from an enterprise IT department is usually a project.
Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying by dagw on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @10:38AM (#29552709)
If a cloud machine is idle is you can shut it down and stop paying for it.