[eloisant]

> The new mantra with the cloud champions in my company is that cloud was never meant to save money. It’s a premium experience that’s about saving time.

But that's true, AWS really took off when people were developping Facebook apps and seeing exponential growth over a few days.

They wanted servers right now, but their supplier had 1 week of lead time to get a new machine, + setup time. On the other hand you could spin up a new EC2 machine in a few seconds.

[joepie91_]

During the time that this became a frequently-repeated marketing talking point, 'regular' hosting providers with one-day turnaround or even instant provisioning were already widespread. It was never really the revolutionary feature it was pitched as, honestly.