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by Znafon 2051 days ago
Except that nearly all companies greater than a certain size have an engagement with AWS so they shifted CapEx to CapEx.
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> shifted CapEx to CapEx

or in other words, shifted nothing?

Yes, I think the CapEx argument often advanced by the marketing of AWS and C-levels and engineers of large companies moving to the Cloud is just something said to justify the decision and help everybody get on board with it, but I think the CapEx -> OpEx one is fallacious.

There is others reasons for example the flexibility, the managed services, etc. but I don't think this one makes sense.