one of the most horrifying short stories I've ever read is about this subject matter. https://qntm.org/lena
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my best guess is monopoly rent... once you've moved all your stuff to the cloud you become dependent on them and they know that
once hundreds and thousands of companies do it the cloud providers gain a lot of leverage
i imagine there are some pretty hefty operating expenses they have to pay as well to operate at such an enormous scale, so their costs don't necessarily decrease when they add more customers
oh i think in general it applies to the big 3, but it may extend to others as well, but i've only seen the insane costs from AWS and GCP personally
holy shit that was nuts
so many people do this because they sign up for a 3 month trial or whatever and just end up paying for the shit because there's a show or whatever on each service they like so they just keep paying
i pay about 400 a year for my piracy tools and services.. which when i say that out loud sounds ridiculous, but it's still far far cheaper than paying for multiple streaming services and/or cable
plus i can watch whatever i want, binging or not commercial free, and i can get games and whatever else thrown in at no additional cost
the cloud is so ridiculously expensive that the company i work at which has a number of early Google employees and is backed by the Google mega rich is now looking to pull away from running everything in the cloud because it is simply untenable. And we're in a goddamned hurry to shift everything to our own equipment in rented data center space before another insane jump in cloud pricing kills us off which is virtually guaranteed
well, yeah... that much should be obvious. The only question is whether the US will end the world rather than lose its treats.
if this was early 2000 google would be ended by this type of dumb shit
At what cost?!
i see they're unaffected by crowdstrike
"official term" lmao