Comment by themafia

> You’ve been scammed, likely not out of your own money, but your employer’s money – and that’s why you don’t give a crap.

No, I've ran the numbers, and in doing so, realized that EC2 is the wrong solution for most problems. If you use the correct solution the price is highly competitive with your servers. One of the reasons being, I do not need to maintain servers.. I did that for 25 years and I absolutely hate it. The amount of time I save, which my company pays for, is ridiculous. I get a powerful security model, a unified API for managing everything, and expertly managed runtimes.

You're acting as if people only making $4k/mo in salary are making these decisions. You've got startup brain. Come back down to earth and reassess your position.

> you’re looking to save for the long run. Well, turns out buying your own servers is even cheaper in a long enough time frame

Yet another process I don't have to waste time on. "Capital purchasing" is extremely annoying (by design) in every single organization I've ever worked for or consulted with.

Like most "cloud cost analysis" this is extremely shallow and is apparently based upon the supposed "virality" of a single tweet.