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dsmcr

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    Comment #23495185

    It would be except IBM Cloud is never cheaper than AWS.

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    Comment #23474032

    More likely their service offerings are growing so fast that trying to make the pricing structure coherent is like a hyper-aggressive game of whack-a-mole.

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    Comment #23474005

    Unfortunately, that API changes regularly and often in undocumented ways that causes breakages for customers. Its really a lot of fun to deal with when suddenly a bunch of automati…

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    Comment #23473364

    FWIW - IBM Cloud today has basically no benefit over AWS, Azure or GCE or even against some of the smaller regional players like AliCloud. The notable exception would be if you nee…

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    Comment #23473146

    Sorry, didn't mean to put you on blast like that.

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    Comment #23472680

    Yeah the move from FreeBSD to Linux wouldn't have been fun for you guys either. And yeah, the WDC POPs were some of the most overbuilt from a bandwidth perspective and that was alm…

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    Comment #23472595

    You guys were one of the best use cases for the SL model, which really hasn't changed in 10+ years. You had very few dependencies on the less-reliable (read: all of them) services …