Part of the appeal of the cloud over on-premise is that on-premise is not just expensive, but hard: oxide’s product isn’t just on-premise hardware, it’s on-premise hardware _that is easy_*. If on-premise was just expensive, it would be so much more appealing — because the cloud is expensive too!

Most every software engineer has worked in an org where spending six figures per month on AWS or GCP is totally normal and acceptable because the alternative, buying hardware, is this awful scary unknown that could be cheaper but could also blow the entire company up. If oxide can solve that, suddenly on-premise becomes much more attractive.

Yes, people are hooked on the cloud, but not because of data transfer… because it’s easy.

* well, the first few deployments might not be easy but that’s true of anything new.