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by skywhopper 815 days ago
Really misleading numbers in a lot of ways. Notably, they dismiss the risk of inflation, ignore longer term maintenance, choose really poor cloud analogs for their architecture, and ignore cost-saving options like spot instances and pre-pay discounts.

All that said, yes, cloud is often more expensive for simple applications with stable 24/7 workloads that don’t evolve over time. Do the research and choose the right infrastructure platform for your business.