Why Companies are Kicking Cloud to the Curb

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Key points:

• Cost

• Failed migrations

• Demising need

[damonaniton]

I say it all the time. Everyone loves the cloud, until they get the bill.

[regisdumoulin]

I work for a very large company who migrated to the cloud a few years ago.
One of the unintended consequences has been to make many hidden costs apparent. For instance many developers used to stay late in the evening to catch up with their work... Suddenly that wasn't possible anymore because the contact said that services would be shut down at 7pm... Anything beyond that and you needed to file up an extension request, for a fee... For management it was a nightmare choosing between the project being late or overrunning the infrastructure budget)... And there was also the mandatory upgrades to the various components used by the applications... There was no budget for going into delivered applications every 6 months and upgrade and retest things. Right now there is a lot of ressentiment the cloud made everything more difficult and slowed down the work that could be done with the existing teams... And as more data started to accumulate in the system storage fees kept increasing and increasing... I could carry on quite a lot with this...

[cw]

I’m retired. I spent 50 years in IT. All outsourcing deals never save you the money you expected or give you the quality the vendor promises.

[dewiz]

I’m a long-retired software guy, who ran a bunch of machines in my house. I always thought of “The Cloud” as “Somebody else’s disk drive”

[reaperinsaltbrine]

My beef with the "Cloud" was always that when data leaves systems you control it is not yours anymore. Cloud always looked like a compliance and data loss nightmare to me.

[PLHogan]

I have been in the computer arena since late 70's. I can't tell you how many times this has gone back and forth from keeping in house to outsourcing. It will move back in house until it is fashionable or more cost effecient to go out again. Back and forth this will always hapen.

[this_time_imperfect]

The nail in the coffin for my company was when Dropbox accused us of copyright infringement and piracy, and locked several employees accounts. We’re a video production company that delivers to TV stations and streaming services, the Dropbox content identification flagged our work, and because it’s nearly impossible to speak to a human at Dropbox the issue never got resolved. We ended up switching to our own in house Synology system, and it’s already been more cost effective.

[OctopusPrime]

Price was never the clouds selling point, dynamic scalability and speed to deploy are its selling points.

[comentariopolitico]

An international division of my company experienced exactly this. The Cloud sales pitch was great, their PowerPoint presentations, superb, and their promises were like Heaven on Earth. Then, once the move was completed, it came the bill. SHOCK! Any additional fees for any simple changes, staggering. Then came the most obvious: now that we got you, you have to follow OUR guidelines for everything. Of course, the MBAs that vouched and signed on everything are long gone, "falling up" due to the "promised cost savings".

[whocarescrapsa]

Been in this game 30+ years. Seen centralised (mainframe), decentralised (client/server), centralised (terminal services, web) to decentralised (mobile apps). Runs on our own hardware, runs on other peoples hardware. Standardise, then customise. Public cloud, private cloud. Don’t get caught up in the buzz words. Everything is cyclical. Make use of a technology while it’s cost effective but don’t ever get too comfortable thinking it won’t change back. Once cloud has your data, they going to hike the price. Then we move it back.

[GOAP]

I had to shut down my 9 month old manufacturing company after the accounting/inventory / job track / customer software increased it’s monthly price by 1600% and removed half the functionality. Will never build another company that relies on a subscription or cloud based service. It gives too much control over your bottom line to someone else.

[DropBox-jxyr]

He stretched this out to 10 minutes. Here’s the short version: It costs too damn much.

[Alan.livingston]

I think people overlook the fact that large enterprises also get special pricing that smaller businesses don’t have access to. I work for a large American corporation that has a “special relationship” with Microsoft so we get access to steep discounts on azure resources.

[LucasCarroll]

I think a lot of companies have this notion that "if its in the cloud then its someone else's responsibility" While that may be true from a contract perspective, at the end of the day its still your data.

[thermalreboot]

I worked for a company that decided to go full cloud. My job was to keep the data center systems running until all work loads were in the cloud. The data center cost $300, 000/year. When they fired me after closing the DC cloud was $1 million/month. The place was run by idiots. They could have kept the DC and me for a full year for 2 weeks of cloud payments.

[odeholon]

We run 45 plus servers for less than 2.2k a month. 3 environments. 16 gb ram 4 cores 120 gb. Bare linux. Forget msft. Forget amazon. There are many good providers with bare metal

[ImmacHn]

The cloud is just someone else's computer

[dunatyphon]

There is no just someone else's computer....

[Simbosan]

cloud was never about the cost of hardware, it's about ease and cost of maintenance, ease and cost of scaling and deployment. If you think AWS is all about offering 'hard'ware you're missing the point

[fwingebritson]

Seven years from now, "Why are companies ditching AI? Let's talk about it."