[riku_iki]

gcp was net negative until last year.

Big part of why clouds are expensive is not necessary hardware, but all software infra and complexity of all services.

[direwolf20]

Maybe not worth using then. Your product costs 5x and delivers 0.2x of competing product in the adjacent product class (traditional server/VPS), why use it?

[riku_iki]

those who don't need cloud services are feel free to use other options.

[direwolf20]

Which cloud services do you need?

[riku_iki]

DB with cross zone replications and HA for starter.

[direwolf20]

Does HA mean failover or does it mean multi–master?

[riku_iki]

It means high availability.

[oblio]

All the big clouds are still in market share acquisition mode. Give it about 5 more years, when they're all in market consolidation and extraction mode.

[riku_iki]

cloud providers indeed could abuse vendor lock, but LLMs are not that easily vendor lockable.

[oblio]

Search engines were also not "easily vendor lockable".