A lot of people in this thread should start consultancies that transition companies off the cloud.
Apparently, it would be easy for them to save tens of millions, in turn making millions for the consultant.
Apparently, it would be easy for them to save tens of millions, in turn making millions for the consultant.
One only says this if they don't have a good understanding of the differences between capex & opex, the amount of money spent on tech labor & compliance projects, as well as the level of assurances AWS give you regarding durability of data. All of this in 2023 when we have almost 20 years of data showing more and more business moving to the cloud and staying in the cloud.
I think anti-cloud sentiment aligns with hacker mentality on decentralization=good (which it is), anti big corporation feelings (boo amazon) and so it leads people in these threads to make emotional arguments over something that is clearly going in the other direction. It's an excellent example of confirmation bias, trying to look for any and all justification to say the cloud is worse, when the majority of businesses have decided otherwise.
Step 2, write articles like this as part of your newly contracted "engagement" with Amazon to help justify the lower price.
So pay Amazon a bunch for the privilege to have lower prices. How about just starting off somewhere where you don't have to commit to paying a lot of money to get a reasonable price?
Canva grew very quickly. I don't think it was a terrible call to use the cloud at the time.
Cloud became a fad a while ago, companies like Amazon/Google/MSFT rushed in burning cash to provide incentives. Now said companies adjust fees to milk businesses due to high exit cost, just because they can. This will inevitably create outflow of customers, however we are far from this point currently.