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This so much. Seeing cloud spend in companies always make me laugh.

I could do all that for a fraction of the cost with dedicated servers outside of EC2.

I don't know where this guy worked but I've seen at least 10 cloud migrations in my career, across different clients. It's not that uncommon and not too expensive unless you're relying on weird services on top of your cloud.

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Cloud =/= Just EC2, VMs. Why stop with the dedicated services? We can do much cheaper in colocation, or even building a datacenter /s

Yes?

Not sure why the '/s'. Options exist, and not just "AWS or GCP".

Sure aws, gcp and azure are interchangeably expensive

You're kidding but I've seen migrations from data centers to aws (despite committing to much larger expenses) and from aws to data centers (mainly to save money).

In practical terms, the hassle of managing the hardware is far greater than having to manage software, especially now that everyone is on the container boat. Not that it was necessarily different for people on bsd + jails in the past, but that wasn't widespread.

I think dedicated server are a sweet spot of complexity / cost.

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