LightningCrash
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It'd be need to see the figures that go into what you saw for that (normalized to $1 for on-prem, of course), Massamune.
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Can't share the exact data, but our model was pretty simple. We took the total all-in cost of our DC, software licenses, equipment and maintenance over a 5 year period, accounted for depreciation, and compared to a cloud environment that had the same # of VM's running. Even accounting for shutting off dev environment off hours etc, cloud was about $1.18 to $1 on prem for us when i last ran the numbers.It'd be need to see the figures that go into what you saw for that (normalized to $1 for on-prem, of course), Massamune.
Can't share the exact data, but our model was pretty simple. We took the total all-in cost of our DC, software licenses, equipment and maintenance over a 5 year period, accounted for depreciation, and compared to a cloud environment that had the same # of VM's running. Even accounting for shutting off dev environment off hours etc, cloud was about $1.18 to $1 on prem for us when i last ran the numbers.
like dropbox running away from AWS?
The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire
sorry but I don't really buy the "enterprise" cloud... the cloud is great for companies that don't have the talent to run their own infrastructure
mikeblas
I think you're dead-on with your analysis of cloud computing, at least the compute aspect of it. Grimdaria is 100% correct, if you're using cloud compute 24/7 you'll go broke. However, if you have a) unpredictable workloads or b) predictable burst for a very short period of time, cloud compute makes 100% sense. Before I knew about cheap VPSes, I rented an AWS instance for a couple months, cost me $90/month (1 CPU, 1.7GB RAM, 10GB disk); needless to say that instance wasn't active for much longer.
4saken
With your hybrid, how do you make spun-up cloud instances addressable? Do you use scripts to update load balancers and DNS servers to make them aware of the cloud instances as they come online?
That has me questioning your anecdote about not wanting to pay for an AWS instance. If you don't need it, it doesn't matter if it costs $9 per year or $90,000 per day. You don't need it.Cool. Unfortunately, I don't have much use for cloud stuff so playing with it to any depth is out of the window - at least for the moment.
That has me questioning your anecdote about not wanting to pay for an AWS instance. If you don't need it, it doesn't matter if it costs $9 per year or $90,000 per day. You don't need it.