• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    6 months ago

    I see more and more businesses realizing the trade-off they’re actually doing when they give in and get cloud services instead of hosting your own hardware and hiring your own team.

    Yes, the up-front overhead cost is much larger, but there’s been a lot of fuckups at these big companies recently and a lot more valid reasons for companies to be justifying bringing everything back in-house instead of living in the cloud.

    Part of that is the growth of open source cloud applications, so you can still have it all “in the cloud” but that cloud is still owned, operated, and administered by your own team, in a physical location you can access. A lot of the same benefits just with more technical overhead.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      The “cloud” was never supposed to be a service for businesses. It was what was offered to consumers, so they could access the kinds of things businesses have, like internet-hosted storage. But the marketing worked too well on middle managers.