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Businesses Moving From Amazon's Cloud To Build Their Own

Posted by samzenpus on from the on-my-own dept.

itwbennett writes "There are rumblings around this week's OpenStack conference that companies are moving away from AWS, ready to ditch their training wheels and build their own private clouds. Inbound marketing services company HubSpot is the latest to announce that it's shifting workloads off AWS, citing problems with 'zombie servers,' unused servers that the company was paying for. Others that are leaving point to 'business issues,' like tightening the reins on developers who turned to the cloud without permission."

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  1. The obvious next step... by lxs · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...will be to give every user their own personal cloud housed in a box under their desk.
    At which point the cycle will begin again.

    1. Re:The obvious next step... by benf_2004 · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...will be to give every user their own personal cloud housed in a box under their desk. At which point the cycle will begin again.

      That sounds like a great idea! We can call it a Personal Cloud, or PC for short.

  2. Different needs for different scales by slim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How hard is it to understand that the cost/benefit depends on your size?

    Car analogy: If you're an individual who needs a car a couple of times a year, you rent one on those occasions. If you drive almost every day, you buy a car and you get it insured. If you're a small company, you give your travelling staff a car allowance. If you're a big company, you buy a company car scheme and insure all the cars under one policy. If you're a gigantic company, you self-insure all your staff's company cars.

    Draw a graph of the cost vs scale of a third-party cloud, versus your own datacentre. At some point the graphs will cross. That's where you switch.