Hacker News Reader

that worked real well for cloud computing

aws and gcp's margins are legendarily poor

oh, wait

gcp was net negative until last year.

Big part of why clouds are expensive is not necessary hardware, but all software infra and complexity of all services.

All the big clouds are still in market share acquisition mode. Give it about 5 more years, when they're all in market consolidation and extraction mode.

cloud providers indeed could abuse vendor lock, but LLMs are not that easily vendor lockable.

Search engines were also not "easily vendor lockable".

Maybe not worth using then. Your product costs 5x and delivers 0.2x of competing product in the adjacent product class (traditional server/VPS), why use it?

those who don't need cloud services are feel free to use other options.

Which cloud services do you need?

DB with cross zone replications and HA for starter.

Does HA mean failover or does it mean multi–master?

It means high availability.

Do you know what that means? If you don't know what it means, how do you know you need it?

I see you are trolling, bye

I'm understanding that you have no idea what high availability means, you only know that you need it and the cloud has it. Great marketing by the cloud.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com