The cloud is legitimately the fattest scam that technically-competent people have fallen for.
It’s sad seeing so many people who are supposed to be smart get taken for a ride because they see everyone else doing it.
For the price people pay on renting cloud hardware, they could purchase their own hardware, upgrade their internet connection, and save thousands of dollars.
Instead they make donations so the idiots using their services can pay cloud providers for the stupidity of the service owners.
I have an Oracle cloud account for access to their free VPS. I’m part of a virtual TTRPG playing with my kids and their friends over half the continent and don’t have to deal with fighting to get computers to see a server on my home network. I’m operating in the cracks, living off the crumbs of their paid services, using barely enough of their resources to even count as a rounding error. It’s a win for me.
Honestly, using the cloud to “right provision” can save a company money or at least give them great flexibility.
The problem? Companies over provision in the cloud and most of that goes unused.
When it’s cheap and easy to spin a new instance under load but later no one cares about doing capacity analysis, you end up paying for way more than you need. That’s where the money goes.
The cloud is legitimately the fattest scam that technically-competent people have fallen for.
It’s sad seeing so many people who are supposed to be smart get taken for a ride because they see everyone else doing it.
For the price people pay on renting cloud hardware, they could purchase their own hardware, upgrade their internet connection, and save thousands of dollars.
Instead they make donations so the idiots using their services can pay cloud providers for the stupidity of the service owners.
On prem is cheaper by a wide margin for steady load, but cloud is good if you need burst processing.
I have an Oracle cloud account for access to their free VPS. I’m part of a virtual TTRPG playing with my kids and their friends over half the continent and don’t have to deal with fighting to get computers to see a server on my home network. I’m operating in the cracks, living off the crumbs of their paid services, using barely enough of their resources to even count as a rounding error. It’s a win for me.
Honestly, using the cloud to “right provision” can save a company money or at least give them great flexibility.
The problem? Companies over provision in the cloud and most of that goes unused.
When it’s cheap and easy to spin a new instance under load but later no one cares about doing capacity analysis, you end up paying for way more than you need. That’s where the money goes.