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by tempest_ 257 days ago
The other thing the cloud does not let you do is make trade offs.

Sometimes you can afford not to have triple redundant 1000GB network or a simple single machine with raid may have acceptable down time.

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yeah this

it means that even after negotiating much better terms than baseline we run into the fact that cloud providers just have a higher cost basis for the more premium/general product.