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Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years (arstechnica.com)
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Note: the Ars Technica article links to a blogpost by Lydia Leong, a cloud computing analyst at Gartner, the URL seems to be broken. I believe they wanted to reference this blog post.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

It’s fascinating. In my lifetime I went from only servers to the cloud is always cheaper to the cloud really depends if it makes financial sense for your application.

I remember someone telling me the cloud is practically free ten years ago.

[–] Alphane_Moon 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I am curious to what extent IT repatriation is a discussion topic versus a real phenomenon. You hear a lot about this topic in the last few years, but very market-level numbers.

On a purely back on the napkin analysis, it would make sense, since AWS/Azure/gcloud would want to raise prices once they have a foothold on the market (and some of the on-perm knowledge is lost).

[–] Speculater 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think they rely on the so called "tech debt" or on-perm knowledge to retire or move on, then crank up the pricing. Everyone who went to the cloud is going to get squeezed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

already happening and the company I was at reaction was different cloud provider which required so much work to move between they are never going to see the labor savings. the cloud should theoretically give them.

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