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0 pointsbushbaba3y ago0 comments

Your price point and the clouds margin is tied to not sitting on lots of unused instances. you want there to be adequate capacity not excessive capacity

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layer83y ago

It goes both ways: cloud providers don’t want to make promises about capacity, and cloud users don’t want to make promises about usage.

I don’t know about price point. Dedicated servers can be cheaper than cloud in many cases, if you have the appropriate know-how, and the cloud business is very profitable for a reason.

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