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by dfgdfg34545456 on Saturday February 10, 2024 @06:09AM
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For big companies such as banks this cost comparison is not as straight forward. They have whole data centres just sitting there for disaster recovery. They periodically do switchovers to test DR. All of this expense goes away when they migrate to cloud.
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> All of this expense goes away when they migrate to cloud.
They need to replicate everything in multiple availability zones, which is going to be more expensive than replicating data centres.
They still need to test their cloud infrastracuture works.
> All of this expense goes away when they migrate to cloud.
Just to pay someone else enough money to provide the same service and make a profit while do it
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by dfgdfg34545456 on Saturday February 10, 2024 @07:25AM
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Well corporations pay printers to do their printing because they don't want to be in the business of printing. It's the same with infrastructure, a lot of corporations simply don't want to be in the data centre business.
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by jabradoodle on Saturday February 10, 2024 @08:31AM
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That's how nearly every aspect of every business works; would you you start a bakery by learning construction and building it yourself?
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by AtlasBarfed on Saturday February 10, 2024 @05:55PM
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Construction is a one time cost. It infrastructure is in constant use.
It's like accounting and finance. Yeah a lot of companies use tax firms, but they all have finance and accounting in-house.
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by jabradoodle on Monday February 12, 2024 @07:19AM
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I don't think that's the important distinction, lots of ongoing costs are outsourced.
Amazon may have their own shipping fleet, most retailers of smaller scale pay someone else to do it for profit.