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Why is it always colo vs cloud in these arguments? What about renting everything monthly from ovh, rackspace, softlayer etc? Many of them can provision dedicated servers within minutes, too.

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Also some combination of cloud and private servers. If I was starting up a Netflix competitor for instance, the site could probably run fine from owned hardware, but the content itself would be better off being cloud based.

Ironically netflix does the exact opposite. Also, you definitely don't want to have the content on the cloud - the data transfer pricing is where they make significant profit. Both AWS and GCE are ~$100/TB outgoing.

AWS provides a SAN in the form of EBS.

Colocation provides a SAN in the form of calling up a datacenter storage company and having some consultants install you a SAN.

What are you going to do to get similar functionality on OVH, Rackspace, or Softlayer?

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