Cloud was always more expensive (in the short term) than self-managed/collocated servers.
How is this news?
In cloud, you pay for availability, for ad-hoc instances without waiting for a month to install new servers and more.
You only need to hire “software” DevOps, rather than people who neatly lay your cables, journey to DC to replace disks, etc, etc, etc.
Pick a good, cheap cloud. It is a commodity product. Just because AWS is expensive, you don't have to pick AWS.
If going solo is an option, you likely do not use any of them “fancy” AWS managed services. In that case, you can just as well go with any of tens of other Cloud providers.
DHH sang the song and some people take it as a gospel. (eyeroll)
"You only need to hire “software” DevOps, rather than people who neatly lay your cables, journey to DC to replace disks, etc, etc, etc."
Lol, what year you think we are? 1998? There are colo facilities around the world, you have 'remote hands' to take care everything related to hardware.
You just need ansible/xyz to deploy you software, thats all it takes
The last time I have seen such an operation was back in 2009.
Also, even today you can buy a barebone place in the rack, with climate control and power supply. I know companies who do their disk replaces, cable management even in 2023.
I am fully aware you can have mostly managed data centre, like for example, Leaseweb, OVH, Servers.com. But if you have specialized hardware requirements, sometimes you have to wait a few days/weeks for installation.
I am old, but I don't think we are back in the 1998.
How is this news?
In cloud, you pay for availability, for ad-hoc instances without waiting for a month to install new servers and more.
You only need to hire “software” DevOps, rather than people who neatly lay your cables, journey to DC to replace disks, etc, etc, etc.
Pick a good, cheap cloud. It is a commodity product. Just because AWS is expensive, you don't have to pick AWS.
If going solo is an option, you likely do not use any of them “fancy” AWS managed services. In that case, you can just as well go with any of tens of other Cloud providers.
DHH sang the song and some people take it as a gospel. (eyeroll)