Comment by riku_iki
18 days ago
gcp was net negative until last year.
Big part of why clouds are expensive is not necessary hardware, but all software infra and complexity of all services.
18 days ago
gcp was net negative until last year.
Big part of why clouds are expensive is not necessary hardware, but all software infra and complexity of all services.
Maybe not worth using then. Your product costs 5x and delivers 0.2x of competing product in the adjacent product class (traditional server/VPS), why use it?
those who don't need cloud services are feel free to use other options.
Which cloud services do you need?
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All the big clouds are still in market share acquisition mode. Give it about 5 more years, when they're all in market consolidation and extraction mode.
cloud providers indeed could abuse vendor lock, but LLMs are not that easily vendor lockable.
Search engines were also not "easily vendor lockable".