• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Cloud was never supposed to be “cheap”. It has always been a utility based model where you pay for how much you use it. The problem is, way too many people used is as a 1:1 replacement without rearchitecting their workloads, so of course it’s gonna be more expensive.

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      3 months ago

      Not just that, but the big value proposition was supposed be that you wouldn’t need sysadmins. In practice, these services are so complex that you need a dedicated skill set to use them, except now it’s specific skills for each provider that aren’t directly transferable.

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        3 months ago

        Which means you can sell support in addition to the service itself. Mission accomplished!

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          3 months ago

          Not to mention the benefits of having vendor lock in, since migrating to a different service becomes prohibitively expensive.