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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The advantage is you don’t need to plan and provision your own infrastructure in a DC because the vendor handles it.

That flexibility is worth serious money.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Personally I don't call that an advantage. Paying 3-5x times in monthly fees over the course of 5 years just so someone else can lifecycle the hardware. That doesn't even include the performance hit from using shared infrastructure compared to dedicated infrastructure.

    Look at 37Signals saving $7 million over 5 years after leaving AWS.

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