Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for a year or more in advance on a certain level of spend. Th...
What always kept me off the “cloud” (other people’s computers) is not only giving up my data but giving up control on what I spend. Corporations lure you in with flashy promises and low prices, then usually over time the service gets worse the prices go higher and higher. I’m sure the cloud hosting corporations are good at pricing their services very high but not quite high enough to make most customers cancel.
Lock-in is quite an old strategy in Tech (back in the day Microsoft’s dominance was built on it) and apparently every new generation needs to learn their lesson…
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What always kept me off the “cloud” (other people’s computers) is not only giving up my data but giving up control on what I spend. Corporations lure you in with flashy promises and low prices, then usually over time the service gets worse the prices go higher and higher. I’m sure the cloud hosting corporations are good at pricing their services very high but not quite high enough to make most customers cancel.
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Lock-in is quite an old strategy in Tech (back in the day Microsoft’s dominance was built on it) and apparently every new generation needs to learn their lesson…
That’s true, back in the 1970s and 1980s IBM locked companies in with mainframes and PCs were their way out.