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by MisterPea 1238 days ago
One of the more surprising metrics I've heard from Andy Jassy is that despite trillion dollar companies generating huge amounts of cash from cloud, 95% of enterprise workloads are still not on cloud.

I think it's more than just a few customers.

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Realistically, the cloud is just too expensive compared to most other solutions. AWS, Azure, and G Compute are all easily 10x the cost of hiring a good team of sysadmins. When you require a lot of computing power, it just doesn’t scale financially