There is a corollary to this: Do you really need cloud infrastructure? Cattle not pets right? Well, no. Have you seen amazons AWS margins? Its 30%. After amazon buys hardware, pays people to run it, it still makes 30%. Not having hardware is someone else's profit. That isnt cattle, its contract poultry farming. Learn capacity planing. Learn to write cachable, scalable apps. Track your hardware spend per customer. Lea…
> Not having hardware is someone else's profit. But it's also someone else's economies of scale. The chances of me getting datacenter space, hardware, bandwidth, and expert 24/7 staffing at the same volume discounts they do is... slim. Particularly for the small amounts I'd need.
They may be enjoying economy of scale, but they aren't passing that along as savings to their customers. Why would you when people seem happy to pay high prices?