And that's how insignificant the costs of cloud providers are in the grand scheme of things. It's a lot of money to a bootstrapping startup, but for the vast majority of these cloud providers' customers, it's a rounding error that's easily forgotten for 3 years.
And that's precisely why you and your little bootstrapper or indie firm should not be using globocloud: you do not have mountains of cash to piss away. Bare metal is trending again. And in this downturn, it's no wonder why. Smaller companies are getting smarter and more efficient. They've decided to chase money instead of cargo cults.
Globocorps burning cash on globocloud is not a signal for small fish to do the same - it's a signal to do the polar opposite. You're not going to become like them by copying what they're doing now. It will not work for you. Globocloud isn't successful because they shovel cash into AWS's shredder, they shovel cash into the shredder because they're successful.
You'd be surprised. I've seen AWS bills well in the 9 figures. It's just that fixing expensive designs is, in itself, quite expensive, and many of those very large corps have hiring practices that don't allow them to complete for the top of the market. Sometimes there's tens, if not hundreds of millions in savings a year, but corporate sclerosis makes it very difficult for broad cost-saving initiatives to be identified and approved.
It's the same issue in any large organization: Large levels of success somewhere allow for large levels of waste somewhere else, but often the waste is not required for the success to exist: The success just makes the organization complacent.
And that's precisely why you and your little bootstrapper or indie firm should not be using globocloud: you do not have mountains of cash to piss away. Bare metal is trending again. And in this downturn, it's no wonder why. Smaller companies are getting smarter and more efficient. They've decided to chase money instead of cargo cults.
Globocorps burning cash on globocloud is not a signal for small fish to do the same - it's a signal to do the polar opposite. You're not going to become like them by copying what they're doing now. It will not work for you. Globocloud isn't successful because they shovel cash into AWS's shredder, they shovel cash into the shredder because they're successful.