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by russellendicott 1910 days ago
Yeah. I used to work for a mid sized company and they did a lot of on-prem. Even there it took a lot of lead time to add 20 physical nodes to a cluster.

Now I work for an Global Enterprise and the benefits of cloud aren't necessarily about reliability--they're more about the speed and efficiency that pet projects can be spun up and spun down without international labor laws and multi-year leases.