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0 pointslowbloodsugar2y ago0 comments

If you can afford to build a data center and know you have that fixed amount of capacity for 10y then you’re not talking about 99.99% of businesses. For everyone else the cloud is cheaper. In fact, to your customers, you are the cloud, so I’m not sure what you are arguing.

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endisneigh2y ago

I don't think they're arguing anything.

The parent wondered:

> It would be interesting to see what the corresponding figures are like for on-prem

They replied. Not everything is an argument.

Also, they didn't say anything about fixed capacity - they're likely just talking about 10Y deprecation which is a very common accounting thing to use - and "For everyone else the cloud is cheaper" is definitely not true. It depends on workload and architecture. If you're in the business of selling infrastructure, for example, using the cloud will eat most of your margins (this is not to say that it's not done, but usually there's some caveats, e.g. maybe you will get some cheap VMs provisioned and do your own fleet management ontop instead of building everything on top of say, firebase or dynamodb).

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