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cannot upvote this enough. DHH perfectly explained what is wrong with cloud. Constant gaslighting from cloud marketing about: capital costs, human cost, hardware cost, etc., while ignoring all negatives of cloud.

Cloud computing is pure scam. you rent 1 vCPU and people often think this is as good as a real 1 hardware core, while in reality that physical core is being sold twice/three times to different customer. Your 1 vCPU is maybe 0.5-0.75 of a real hardware CPU, perhaps even less, depending on how greedy cloud provider is.

It is almost like instead of driving your own car and making stable car payment - you decide to exclusively use Uber/Lyft to go around. Sounds good if you are in NYC/SF, but not so much outside of these perfect use cases. Also doesn't make sense if your primary job is pizza delivery, all your margins from delivering pizzas will just transfer to ride hailing company.