[slackingoff2017]

You really think business grows so fast that you need instant servers?

Google ran for many years on piles of commodity boards and they were expanding pretty fast...

The amount of marketing hype around cloud services is insane because all the big tech companies have a vested interest in your renting their platforms. It doesn't allow you to do anything you couldn't 15 years ago, just makes it easy.

[aorloff]

Just makes it cheaper to get started and automate. But compared to setting up a server and running something on it, modern cloud platforms are about as complex IMO (to do right at least).

[got2surf]

True, but it would still take more time/effort/knowledge to spin up your servers on commodity boards.

Plus, the level of resources for configuring EC2-like servers, and Heroku-esque preconfigured servers reduce the barrier to entry pretty significantly.

[amigoingtodie]

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