I really don't care about AWS sales (customer, but not investor or employee). But...
If it's not highly loaded, cloud is cheaper. If it's not in a well run datacenter / machine room, cloud is FAR more reliable. The cost of blowing up hardware in less than well run machine rooms / datacenters can be immense. At a now defunct cell provider, we lost a badly maintained machine room to fire, only about 24 racks, $2.1 million damage. And nearly burned down the Frys Palo Alto building. And that's just the worst catastrophe; had more losses than that in smaller clusters / onsies. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 13, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, 13 Mar 2016, Roland Dobbins wrote: >>> On 13 Mar 2016, at 3:03, George Herbert wrote: >>> >>> It's a symptom of trying to save a few cents at the risk of dollars. >> >> Concur 100%. >> >> Not to mention the related security issues. > > Just remember, no exceptions, no waivers. > > I understand why cloud vendors want 100% of government IT dollars. But > requiring all test and development to be done solely in cloud data centers... > there is your 100% >
