Gonna sound like a boomer, but I’ve come to believe that 90%+ of cloud spend is irrational, coming from the fact that engineers aren’t finance savvy enough nor CFOs tech savvy enough
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https://twitter.com/klnusbaum/status/1387971456177373184
Cloud computing is often 10-100x pricier.
And I know the refrain — “you don’t wanna manage your own data centers,” “the cloud gets better while you sleep,” “it scales up and down,” “turn capex into opex!”
But still — 10-100x pricier. Just spreadsheet it out
And I know the refrain — “you don’t wanna manage your own data centers,” “the cloud gets better while you sleep,” “it scales up and down,” “turn capex into opex!”
But still — 10-100x pricier. Just spreadsheet it out
“But it saves you so much engineering time!”
Have you seen AWS’ console? Tried to debug an issue with a lambda function? Had to pay a $200k bill because of a set of monster instances you forgot to shut down?
Have you seen AWS’ console? Tried to debug an issue with a lambda function? Had to pay a $200k bill because of a set of monster instances you forgot to shut down?
If someone offers you $100 of their product for free, they’re the fool. If they offer $100,000 of their product for free, you’re the fool.
Me waiting for Zack to slide into my mentions
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