$10 Million Saved From Leaving The Cloud

I work for a large company. Their cloud bill is 2.5 million PER MONTH. We aren't even a tech company. We're a manufacturing company. It's kinda nuts.

The name is the "On-Premagen"

It's also good that thanks to the European Data Act it's free to transfer out all your data and cloud providers cannot charge outbound traffic for this.

In my 900 person company, we pay Jeff Bezos 12M a year for AWS and we also have highly paid MBA program managers to keep the cloud costs down 😂

10:07 "They are using one single machine". Wait until he find out a bazillion EC2 "machines" are running in a single machine

"So long and thanks for all the fish!" is a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ;3

The cloud usually gets you on the relational database, Cloud relational databases are roughly 10x as expensive as relational databases outside of the cloud.

When you begin to view “cloud” as software-defined data centers, it’s easier to see the pros/cons of why someone might want to move back to on-prem.

I'm convinced the new business growth approach is: 1. Go to cloud immediately. A Lightsail instance is like $5-10/month. There might be a few additional services to setup, then you're done. You focus on the app rather than the hardware. 2. Migrate some services from the cloud to local hardware. Literally just cutting out bloat and cost from your development to your prod. 3. Almost fully migrate off cloud services. Only database off-premises. Absolute control, bills go way down. 4. Hybrid again. Some things need to be connected internationally that just sucks to setup. Leave it to experts. 5. Fully cloud again. You want the ability to blame someone else at this point if anything goes down, which will probably only happen if everyone else also goes down.

I find managing Linux boxes a lot easier than managing AWS. You have to remember that these days companies hire a lot of people to manage stuff hosted on AWS.