[bsenftner]

The 'value' cloud services provide is purely for experimental services an organization does not want to commit physical assets. Those deluded to believing cloud services provide any value beyond test service deployments are propaganda poster boys for today's tech sucker awards.

[mseebach]

Surely, there are people out there who overpay for AWS resources. But the truly deluded are those who purport to understand the sheer width and breadth of organisations and their wildly different requirements and priorities well enough to to brand them suckers.

[luckydata]

You are extremely wrong. The Dropbox story shows that if the bulk of your value comes from selling a commodity (storage) then you need to improve your margins by moving away from a provider that also makes the bulk of their money selling the same commodity.

For companies where the value lies in the utility of a service that can't be easily replicated, you have pricing power to make the convenience of AWS worth the expense.

[user5994461]

Pretty sure that the value of Dropbox doesn't come from the storage. It comes from their software. The magic thing that allows to replicate all your data seamlessly between as many computers and phones as you want, without the need to click any button or understand what the word storage even means.

[snovv_crash]

While I mostly agree with you, there is some benefit to economies of scale and time to deployment.

[KyeRussell]

Have you not worked in smaller companies? Economies of scale apply in myriad situations.