Why you're addicted to cloud computing

Learn how big cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud operate from a business perspective. Explore strategies for optimizing cloud computing costs and avoiding vendor lock-in.

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- AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud
- How to reduce cloud costs
- Is cloud better than dedicated server?
- Big cloud business models
- How to avoid vendor lock-in in tech

[NevrEnds]

"The real question is how much pain are you willing to tolerate"

Every programmer/developer in a nutshell 😂

[Titanman]

I’m actually addicted to Fireship videos

[Lubossxd]

Managers will rather allocate 500m more budget for "cloud" than hire 5 more engineers to optimize their bills

[RyanCrossOfficial]

i love the last bit "bare metal - pain = aws, and aws - pain = vercel". Such a great way for other people to understand the cost/price of convenience.

[c-LAW]

Forecasting cloud costs is akin to determining net medical costs with use of inusrance.

[tomatojuice]

As I'm currently developing Azure-based IT infrastructure for our new 'Ai and Analytics' team, seeing a video that describes not only the pain, but the dependency really puts me at ease, knowing that it's not just me.

[manishm]

There's another consideration why cloud is popular: cloud costs can be accounted as operational expenditure (opex). This simplifies accounting and reduces a company's income tax.

Although it leads to lower profit in the long run, it can juice short term profit and keep investors happy for the next earnings call.

[mx]

I am grateful that I worked as a sysadmin, know how to set a server up server from bare metal.

[gorangagrawal]

Thank god I opted for self-hosting. Now I just need to find a good startup idea to keep inflating the bubble 😂

[symonty]

There is also a business strategy that jump started and now locks you into the cloud, cap ex vs op ex. Multiple companies especially those with "rotating" CEOs look to increase company value by limiting the capital expenditure during their tenure.

[themartdog]

I'm addicted to the cloud because i love Infra as Code. I used to work as a sysadmin and almost had heart failure several times due to dying hardware. Never again! Totally worth the bill.

[vzposce]

As a Cloud Support Engineer, the billing part is spot on. We discouraged to advise people on how much something will cost and just point them to the fancy calculator which itself is like “yeah dude get an estimate” and then people get lost or confused in documentations that are written like some old riddles.

[howling-wolf]

I work at a rather large games company. We rent rack space at three Datacenters with ca. 6000 VMs running on idk how many HVs. Moving to the cloud now would be extremely expensive because our games are built yeah in a way that would be very expensive in the cloud. But we have a disaster recovery plan which involves spinning up a replica of our own infrastructure at AWS anytime we want. It would be supa mega expensive and would not be viable for long but better than like not having our games online :D

Other publishers in our Group use fully managed AWS and pay small sums even compared to self-hosting. And they partly have more players than we do. Thats why my company is trying to figure out how to build new games in a more cloud-friendly way.

Wither way the games themselves need basically no maintenance and are at very high uptimes. Only problem are services like hadoop, bi and our wallet database hahaah

[ev.c]

As someone who holds a Masters degree in computer science and has been in the business for over 14 years I call tell you “running your own because it’s cheap” is not a good solution. Cloud is expensive? Yes, but it takes a huge burden out of your team.

I have worked in all sorts of projects, from bare metal, hybrid and all cloud, and there are advantages and disadvantages to all of this, but running your stuff has huge drawbacks and embedded costs that most people don’t think about. What about backup, data encryption, disk and hardware replacement and hardware monitoring? What about managing disaster recovery plans? You need a whole crew just for that, and if you want competent people, you might as well spend a lot of money that could just go to cloud. If you are a very small company it’s probably a good idea to run stuff in house in the beginning, but in the long run you want to move to the cloud. It’s just more efficient.

[examforge]

The problem is once you learned how to query and setup these clouds and your app is running, you DONT want to change a running system. I would rather tolerate to pay more, instead to have a 50% chance to break everything. This might be true for personal small projects, but also to mid-size companies with 5-10 devs.

[WillKlein]

Just within AWS offerings, we had a major tech project to move to cheaper solutions and tied it to our annual bonus. We did the work and saved so much money in three months that they paid our bonus immediately and refreshed it with new goals and another bonus.

[northendtrooper]

@1:36 loved that you used Tony Zurovec picture. Tony Zurovec works for CIG who is making Star Citizen's quantum tool.

[devchannel]

A rare Tony Zurovec reference here, hope to see him reappear this year 🙂

[cloudwithraj]

One unspoken effect of cloud is career prosperity. With legacy tech, it’s very difficult to switch career, whereas with cloud you get more chances to enter the field because it’s so fast moving. I myself was stuck in a mainframe job and cloud gave me the opportunity to have a better career, and I see lot of folks doing the same.

[anonymeforliberty]

Liked the business lesson at the end of the video. Solutions that relieve pain but that costs money. So companies wouldn't exist without pain. We are living in a painfull world