Sure you do, you’re just blending them into the rate, at a significant margin.
Cloud is awesome for companies where the capital investment needed to deliver the SLA is too expensive.
If you’re big, and you run the numbers, lots of services are better in a datacenter that you manage. Many of the early advantages of cloud tools aren’t a differentiator today. If anything, the granular billing is a nightmare to manage in many large enterprises. There’s a reason AWS heavily targets .gov customers — the Feds probably waste billions on idle services.
I’ve found that the shitty to support or known workload services are best somebody else’s problem. Email is an example of both. Most other things are trading IT complexity with accounting complexity.
Counterpoint: Granular billing of real money can actually drive behavioral changes in ways that fake money and/or letting one department slide because you’re hoping it’s head will rubber stamp your promotion doesn’t.
Cloud is awesome for companies where the capital investment needed to deliver the SLA is too expensive.
If you’re big, and you run the numbers, lots of services are better in a datacenter that you manage. Many of the early advantages of cloud tools aren’t a differentiator today. If anything, the granular billing is a nightmare to manage in many large enterprises. There’s a reason AWS heavily targets .gov customers — the Feds probably waste billions on idle services.
I’ve found that the shitty to support or known workload services are best somebody else’s problem. Email is an example of both. Most other things are trading IT complexity with accounting complexity.