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by SvenL
917 days ago
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While such post are always mentioning costs as a benefit, it would be good to mention that cloud costs are operational expenses and can be deducted completely in the year they occurred while owning hardware is a capital expense and can only be partially deducted over a period of time (like 3-5 years?). As far as I know this has some tax saving implications. Yes, on prem might still be cheaper but it would still be good to mention it in such posts. |
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Can you afford to spend the time to handle fault tolerance and high availability at the infrastructure level, or will that just fall to the wayside once your migration effort passes its original deadline and the business wants to shift to other items? How will you handle auditing without Cloudtrail, or its counterparts? Will you be able to automate OS provisioning, or will you be stuck with adding more staff and increasing lead times?
Let's say you can give a positive answer to all of these. Now, does it benefit the business more to have your team handle all that's required to maintain your own physical infrastructure, or would that time/effort be better spent on things that differentiate the business from its competitors?
We should also remember that Basecamp has built their entire business around this application. They've had time to perfect it and customize it to their exact needs. This is very different from replatforming commercial or open source software that isn't developed in-house. I think there's good reason that most of the time an article of this nature comes out, it's often a SaaS-type offering that's the target of repatriation.