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by re-thc 1173 days ago
> The magic of cloud is how quickly you can scale things up. If you're a new fast growing business it will give you a competitive edge.

The magic if there is 1 is not the scale but the free credits. Startups can go years without paying and then it's all too late.

Scale is meaningless when it costs 10x more. Just have spare capacity and lots of it.