On 1/26/22 11:11 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:
On 1/26/22 17:10, Tom Beecher wrote:
Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when
the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to
anticipate because it's all black box.
Saving 12 months of opex $ sounds great, except when you lose 18
months of opex $ in 2 days completely outside of your ability to
control.
I don't disagree.
What this does, though, is democratize access into the industry. For a
simple business model that is serving a small community with a handful
of eyeballs, not trying to grow forever but put food on the table,
it's somewhere to start.
Didn't Netflix for the longest time run on AWS? I imagine if I were
talking to a VC these days and said the first thing I was going to do is
rack up a bunch of servers, I'd get laughed at. Cloud makes sense until
it doesn't make sense. Just like everything else.
Mike
