Comment by gwbas1c
3 years ago
I agree with almost everything you said; except that the article offers extremely valuable advice for small startups going the cloud / rented VM route: Yearly payments, or approaching a salesperson, can lead to much lower costs.
(I should point out that yesterday, in Azure, I added a VM in a matter of seconds and it took all of 15 minutes to boot up and start running our code. My employer is far too small to have dedicated ops; the cost of cloud VMs is much cheaper than hiring another ops / devops / whatever.)
Yep. To be clear, I thought it was a great article with lots of great advice, just too focused on the technical aspects of cloud benefits, whereas I think the real value is organizational.