[300bps]

What does cloud computing mean to you? It seems like you are thinking of traditional “virtual machines in the cloud”.

When I think of AWS for new development I mostly think of serverless technologies like Lambda, DynamoDB and even serverless RDS. It’s going to be difficult for any company to do it for themselves cheaper.

To me, AWS is about the exact resources needed for a task blinking in and out of existence for the exact number of milliseconds they’re needed. I don’t know how anyone will compete with a cheaper on-prem solution.

Azure seems similar.

[jjav]

> for a task blinking in and out of existence for the exact number of milliseconds they’re needed

Right, in cases where the capacity needed is so low that "blinking out of existence" is a frequent scenario, it is indeed cheaper to rent only those CPU-milliseconds that are needed.

But as usage grows, it will fairly quickly exceed the cost of just having dedicated servers.