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0 pointsmardifoufs3y ago0 comments

If you ignore the costs from stuff like vmware, vcenter, windows server, etc... sure. But it's weird to forget that managing VMs was a huge expense even before the shift to the cloud. No one was just hosting a few dozens or a few hundreds VMs without very expensive management software.

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andix3y ago

I’m not saying that you shouldn’t use the cloud for deploying your software. But instead of deploying hundreds of small services, you may just deploy a handful bigger ones, and are still good. And you may also not need 30 different AWS services, you may be good with a database, maybe a message broker and a container runtime.

If you keep the infrastructure simple, it’s also much easier to switch cloud provider and to set up testing systems.

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