The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)

(2021)

Was fine for me, but I do have various blockers.

I've always thought the mysterious bit was that cloud doesn't seem like it ever gets cheaper while the cost difference between cloud and own infra and profit associated with AWS suggest it could be. Is there something structurally wrong with competition in cloud?

So now the trend is away from cloud ?

What about a good way to to judge the cost of the cloud - pricing has always been overly complex and arcane and full of gaps in understanding the overhead involved

Interesting to see this article again since it was the trigger of starting a homelab for me. After realizing cloud services are putting a major dent in my pocket to get a lousy startup idea off the ground, I started to wonder if there's "The Cheapest" way? (I'm not cheap but I'm very frugal)

Nowadays internet speed is great to do self hosting. I have a business line internet at home with ~1gb up&down! Bought couple of 6-7 year old enterprise Dell servers (2x12core xeon, 128gb ram each) and no longer pay any cloud provider ... i'm also hosting 2 backend solutions for mobile apps with decent traffic for friends' startups!

The learning experience has been tremendous! It has actually gotten a lot better and easier with new solutions coming out for homelabs. Get started with Proxmox clusters and go from there...