[vidarh]

Yeah, I used to be asked to price out a move to AWS every year at one position. After several years Hetzner finally got cheaper than operating our own colo's, but only basically because we were in London and London real-estate is expensive, and so colo space is accordingly expensive, while Hetzner's DC space is dirt cheap.

AWS, however, remained 2x-3x as expensive, with the devops time factored in.

> The perception seems to be "Cloud exists, therefore it must be cheaper, because if it wasn't cheaper why would it exist?

People are also blithely unaware that large customers get significant discounts, and so I regularly has to explain that BigCo X being hosted in AWS means at most that it is cost-effective for them because their spend means they're getting a significant discount over the already highest volume published pricing, and my clients usually are nowhere close to spend enough to be able to get those discounts.