Ask HN: How much did your organization save by migrating to AWS, Azure or GCP?

If you have an established data centre you won’t save money moving to the cloud, it is about the opportunity to do more.

If you are a startup it means you don’t need the upfront investment in hardware.

The cloud doesn’t save you money it just allows you to do more.

The value comes from saving engineering resources and time for implementation, while getting a highly flexible and global environment with lots of features.

With some providers like GCP + provisioned capacity, you can get pretty close to dedicated machines while maintaining the highly available cloud environment.

Our move to Azure was actually a slight cost bump, but we are doing it because it will empower us to built new and better services and give us new flexibility. It's getting harder and harder for smaller data centers to compete on features that the cloud providers are constantly starting to offer.