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I often think about huge, fancy cloud setups literally costing silly money to run, being replaced by a single beast of a machine powered by a modern, high core count CPU (say 48+), lots of RAM and lots of high performance enterprise-grade SSD storage.

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(Oftentimes part of the reason the huge, fancy cloud setup costs more is that any component can fail, all the way down to the region-level, without loss of service.)

And often times that loss of service, if temporary is not all that painful -- it really depends on the exact needs/use case/scenario.

That said, sometimes The Cloud goes down too.

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