Cloud Skepticism Debate
The cluster discusses skepticism towards cloud computing's value, particularly its costs and hype, with arguments favoring on-premises infrastructure over providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP for most use cases.
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That sounds like "working as intended." The main selling points of the cloud are liquidity and accessibility. VC-backed startups are basically the target demographic.
Implied in this: That the cloud provider can do it better than you. Not universally true nowadays.
ngl the cloud evangelists aren’t gonna like this one. this is basically “we did the math and cloud wasn’t worth it
Exception, companies like datadog where they're actually operating in several clouds for good business reasons (it's where their customers are).
why not cut out the middle man and just say those companies suck, and the cloud isn't going to fix it for you.
It's just the meme of the year. There's nothing that changed really for quite a long time. Some cloud services provide things on a simplistic and easy way, some in complex and complete ecosystem. The same choice and the tradeoffs have always been there.The only change is that it's popular to write a "how we saved $$$" blog posts. Which actually could be read as "how we failed to do proper analysis and kept losing $$$ for years".
Good luck. I think moving from cloud is a mistake. I hope your prove me wrong.
In a world where everyone's on AWS or Azure or Google Cloud Engine, hasn't the ship kind of sailed?
no. that was a tabloid claim based on iffy data. Cloud's main products (compute, storage, databases, load balancers, etc) aren't going anywhere.
That doesn't make much sense given their cloud offerings.