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by spamizbad 2384 days ago
It starts looking appealing when your monthly AWS bill is deep into the 5 figures and you’re kinda trapped: do you pour your engineering resources into cost-optimizing your infrastructure (doable, but time consuming) or kick the can down the road?

Believe it or not, going private but not having to give up the niceties of AWS or Azure would be quite appealing.
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walterbell 2384 days ago
Remember Eucalyptus? Was lead by the former CEO of MySQL. Built an open-source project that attempted to be compatible with AWS. The project is still alive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_(software)

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ofrzeta 2384 days ago
To say the project is still alive is a bit of an exaggeration, don't you think?
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walterbell 2384 days ago
Looks like the last release was in 2017. Eight years of releases is a relatively good run. May be of interest to those like Oxide, who are considering similar paths, with the added complexity of firmware, BMCs, roots of trust and OCP-style hardware.

https://github.com/eucalyptus/eucalyptus/releases

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reflectiv 2384 days ago
Also, some companies just want their data in-house and not hosted on a remote cloud. Sometimes contracts preclude the use of 3rd party external companies to house critical data.
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