Re:Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud R...
by blibble on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:30PM
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there's a mile of difference between Romanian lowendbox.com and renting a cage in, say, an equinix datacentre
if this approach to DC compliance/security/redundancy is good enough for the world's financial services industry then it's probably good enough for everyone else too
(but yes, then only saves about 90% of the cost instead of 95%)
Re:Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud R...
by tommica on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:25AM
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Umm, millions saved in the future seems like a decent amount of money? Yeah, they paid for the hardware in year 0 that equals to their AWS bill, but the subsequent years that money is not spent on aws or new servers
Re:Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud R...
by roncesvalles on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:51AM
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Although it's private so we can never be sure, their revenue seems to be in the ballpark of $100m with about 40% margin. So even if they save a million per year, it's not worth it, especially when it's a trade-off.
They didn't save a whole lot of money from it (they aren't spending a whole lot on it anyway), and now their business ever so slightly loses focus. Not to mention, as you said, the quality aspects. Cloud gives you many things "for free" (like local disk RAID, network and power redundancy, datacenter compliance, in-transit and on-disk encryption, optimized OS images, overall network security, controls around what their employees can do - that $5/month lowendbox provider from Romania is almost certainly logging into your VM and going through your files) which you lose when going to a "pre-cloud" provider.