Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud

Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by hotpotamus on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:17PM (#35099413)

I'd say there is a difference between technical path-dependence/tech debt, and a vendor who's actively able to take technical and legal steps to try and compel you to keep using their services. And obviously you should be getting something for the lock-in, otherwise you're setting money on fire for no reason. The fear is what happens once you are well and truly boxed in - somehow IBM still sells a bunch of mainframes, for instance. (Maybe they're truly amazing machines still; I know nothing about that world).

I do spend a fair amount of time and effort trying to keep my company nimble; we try to use open source software and generic cloud primitives so we can move with some ease if need to. As you say, it is all work.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by manv1 on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:09PM (#35100180)

I've never heard of AWS suing someone to keep using their services.

I wouldn't be surprised if Oracle or any outsourcer did that...but that implies a breach of contract, not a transition after a contract is done.

IBM sells mainframes because they're impossible to replace due to the way they're used. Those big printers that print financials statements apparently don't talk to anything else (funny, I was just talking about those the other day). It's about I/O and throughput with those things. You'd think someone would have come up with a replacement, but presumably the market is so small that nobody cares.

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Re:Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud by nikau on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:08AM (#35105579)

Every cloud vendor charges for egress but not ingress, the more data you onboard the more expensive it is to move off

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