> I’m not the one posting about the hypothetical boogeymen that a business I work for is going to grow so large that a cloud provider can’t handle it
That's literally what you said in the post I quoted.
> As if some how that same business could build out a data center that could scale better than AWS or Azure.
You're the only one straw-manning this with on-prem. The whole context of the discussion is around being able to move between cloud providers. Why are you bringing a point into the discussion nobody else thinks relevant?
You can easily grow so large that you hit a limit of what a given cloud provider will allow (e.g. API calls or IOPS) at a price that fits into your budget for a task, even if you're not actually especially large.
My response was that what are the chances that a company will grow large enough that it will outgrow the resources of a cloud provider?
And there are really only three cloud providers worth discussing - AWS, Azure and Google. Besides Google (and if you based your business around then you get what you deserve) what cloud provider has raised prices on a whim? Which provider’s cost are so out of line with the other that it is worth the switching costs? Besides, if you’re that large, you’re paying negotiated prices not published prices.
In fact one post was specifically about building out specialized infrastructure at a colo.
If you’re so large and you are going through the costs and risks to move off of a cloud provider, why put yourself in the same position again by migrating to another provider?
That's literally what you said in the post I quoted.
> As if some how that same business could build out a data center that could scale better than AWS or Azure.
You're the only one straw-manning this with on-prem. The whole context of the discussion is around being able to move between cloud providers. Why are you bringing a point into the discussion nobody else thinks relevant?