> Even with the massive margins, cloud computing is far cheaper for most SMEs than hiring an FTE sysadmin and racking machines in a colo.
That very much depends on your use case and billing period. Most of my public web applications run in a colo in Atlanta on containers hosted by less than $2k in hardware and cached by Cloudflare. This replaced an AWS/Digitalocean combination that used to bill about $400/mo.
Definitely worth it for me, but there are some workloads that aren’t worth it and I stick with cloud services to handle.
I would estimate that a significant amount of services hosted on AWS are paid for by small businesses with less reliability and uptime requirements than I have.
That very much depends on your use case and billing period. Most of my public web applications run in a colo in Atlanta on containers hosted by less than $2k in hardware and cached by Cloudflare. This replaced an AWS/Digitalocean combination that used to bill about $400/mo.
Definitely worth it for me, but there are some workloads that aren’t worth it and I stick with cloud services to handle.
I would estimate that a significant amount of services hosted on AWS are paid for by small businesses with less reliability and uptime requirements than I have.