Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud
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Wow! Only reason I use Azure at all to run any workload is because of the monthly credit I have.
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@nashbrydges said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
Wow! Only reason I use Azure at all to run any workload is because of the monthly credit I have.
That's why they give that out, they get people addicted to it and then they just add on extra workloads often. And they charge so much that even a single VM might completely pay for the free systems that they give out. Their margins are so ridiculously high.
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I tried everything I could to justify the cost of Azure, MS SQL and TS server. No matter, Amazon, Microsoft, or others it was just way to expensive compare to on-prem.
Would love to move to Linux and Postgresql but main business app is Windows only. Hopefully, I will be able to convince the vendor to move in the future.
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I consider Azure and AWS a niche market, TBH. If you've developed an application that all of a sudden explodes on the market and now requires you to expand rapidly, there's a need. If your business then takes a swift down turn, you can contract that workload rapidly.
I get that. But zero of all of our clients would benefit from any of that infrastructure. Healthcare, public schools, law offices, all can use just static instances on a VPS. Maybe financial... maybe. But not at the small scale our financial clients are at.
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@bbigford said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
I consider Azure and AWS a niche market, TBH. If you've developed an application that all of a sudden explodes on the market and now requires you to expand rapidly, there's a need. If your business then takes a swift down turn, you can contract that workload rapidly.
I get that. But zero of all of our clients would benefit from any of that infrastructure. Healthcare, public schools, law offices, all can use just static instances on a VPS. Maybe financial... maybe. But not at the small scale our financial clients are at.
It really doesn't take much to be able to benefit from the rapid expansion capabilities. What it does take, though, is moving to a DevOps style system design. Once you do that, it's amazing how many companies will benefit from that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
@bbigford said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
I consider Azure and AWS a niche market, TBH. If you've developed an application that all of a sudden explodes on the market and now requires you to expand rapidly, there's a need. If your business then takes a swift down turn, you can contract that workload rapidly.
I get that. But zero of all of our clients would benefit from any of that infrastructure. Healthcare, public schools, law offices, all can use just static instances on a VPS. Maybe financial... maybe. But not at the small scale our financial clients are at.
It really doesn't take much to be able to benefit from the rapid expansion capabilities. What it does take, though, is moving to a DevOps style system design. Once you do that, it's amazing how many companies will benefit from that.
The capabilities I see... but the cost is just so far up there I can't convince myself that it is worth it.
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@bbigford said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
@scottalanmiller said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
@bbigford said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
I consider Azure and AWS a niche market, TBH. If you've developed an application that all of a sudden explodes on the market and now requires you to expand rapidly, there's a need. If your business then takes a swift down turn, you can contract that workload rapidly.
I get that. But zero of all of our clients would benefit from any of that infrastructure. Healthcare, public schools, law offices, all can use just static instances on a VPS. Maybe financial... maybe. But not at the small scale our financial clients are at.
It really doesn't take much to be able to benefit from the rapid expansion capabilities. What it does take, though, is moving to a DevOps style system design. Once you do that, it's amazing how many companies will benefit from that.
The capabilities I see... but the cost is just so far up there I can't convince myself that it is worth it.
Azure is silly expensive. Amazon a bit less, with loads more power. Vultr and DO even less. They are really what make more sense for most businesses.
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@scottalanmiller said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
@bbigford said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
@scottalanmiller said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
@bbigford said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
I consider Azure and AWS a niche market, TBH. If you've developed an application that all of a sudden explodes on the market and now requires you to expand rapidly, there's a need. If your business then takes a swift down turn, you can contract that workload rapidly.
I get that. But zero of all of our clients would benefit from any of that infrastructure. Healthcare, public schools, law offices, all can use just static instances on a VPS. Maybe financial... maybe. But not at the small scale our financial clients are at.
It really doesn't take much to be able to benefit from the rapid expansion capabilities. What it does take, though, is moving to a DevOps style system design. Once you do that, it's amazing how many companies will benefit from that.
The capabilities I see... but the cost is just so far up there I can't convince myself that it is worth it.
Azure is silly expensive. Amazon a bit less, with loads more power. Vultr and DO even less. They are really what make more sense for most businesses.
They are the most sense for SMB that are not going to leverage the elasticity and such of a full cloud solution like AWS. Pretty much no SMB needs azure or AWS
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I've heard that GitLab uses Azure in order to test their resiliency
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@flaxking said in Staggering Cost of Azure and Windows on Cloud:
I've heard that GitLab uses Azure in order to test their resiliency
They do, it's caused a bit of outages there.
