https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/17/aws_cma_investigation/
See? We do have competition, cloud giant tells regulator
IT guy here...
GOOD!
The cloud is brilliant for small companies, but for mid size and larger companies it should be used sparingly.
I'd argue it should be used sparingly for the former too. You can so so easily run up costs that would literally bankrupt most small companies, and all with just a few clicks or lines of code.
Yeah, that's true.
I was more thinking like a company of 2-50 people that only need email, computer and user management.
Then the cloud like 365 is fine.
But as you grow you will need to reevaluate the need for local servers, like storage, or in some cases compute.
You need to reevaluate the risks of growing completely dependant on another company for your own company's future, for some scenarios it absolutely makes sense, for other scenarios absolutely not.
If you weren't worried about redundancy you could run that all off of one decent sized NUC. For redundancy just buy a couple more. You'd spend significantly more on workers computer than on infra.
It's great that AWS are (correctly) recognising this.
There's been some great graphs of $/GB and how that's dropped massively over the last 15 years and how S3 prices have remained constant.
I hope this triggers AWS to start competing on price again.
Ppfff the cloud buble is long gone. It’s empresive how many billions the corporations throw on it, and lately are reverting so many services and infrastructure to onprem. Simply brainless.