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This. The beginning of my career on cloud was a POC, where the director shared with me this was a major driving factor (capex > opex), as well as some of the fringe benefits. I got to see close up that a team of devs ran their whole solution (with a bunch of paying customers and everything) in the cloud, because cloud automation was good enough that they didn't need dedicated ops people. Now I work for a cloud provider. I can't say that if I was running a business that I'd build it cloud-first instead of OnPrem. Certain use cases, sure. If I didn't need a lot of horsepower, I might build it on a cluster of VM's with some segmentation of duties - not quite microservices, not quite a monolith. Most likely if I was hosting on the cloud, I'd use the provider I work for, just because I know the system and how to get things done and how to talk to support. I will say though - learning the ins and outs of cloud computing has made for a great career. Challenging, but lucrative. FTA: > Microsoft and Google decided not to officially comment on the survey's findings. However, a representative for one of the hyperscalers retorted that the figures seemed cherry-picked and pointed out that, as an example, customers using reserved instances could realize significant savings. Reserved instances are a thing for sure. There's lots of other ways you can control cloud spend (enterprise agreements, dev/test subscriptions, spot instances, automated shut down / scale down, etc.) - it's enough complexity by itself that big companies hire entire teams of people to just work on tracking, projecting and controlling cloud costs. |