[ckdarby]

> One consumer-grade fiber link is enough to serve my company's traffic and with two months of what we pay MS for their barely working cloud I could buy enough hardware to host our product for a year of two of sustained growth.

I don't believe that is even remotely correct.

It isn't the pricing you should be worried about but the staffing, redundancy, and 24/7 operations staff.

I'm dealing with AWS and on-prem. On-prem spent some $5M to build out a whole new setup, took literal multiple months of racking, planning, designing, setting up, etc.

It's not even entirely in use because we got supply chain issued for 100 Gbit switches and they won't be coming until at least April of 2023 (after many months of delays upon delays already).

[aprdm]

Depending on your scale, things are really not that complicated. If you can run your company from a single machine, having two for redundancy, and two internet links for redundancy, will likely go a loooooooooong way until something bad happens...