Cloud

Before you hit “one-click deploy” on that cloud AI assistant, ask yourself: what exactly are you giving up? There’s a reason why people by Mac mini rather than running clawdbot on the cloud.

At the SACC 2023 FinOps session, I fiercely criticized cloud vendors. This is a transcript of my speech, introducing the ultimate FinOps concept — Cloud-Exit and its implementation path.

The real business model of cloud: “Cheap” EC2/S3 to attract customers, and fleece with “Expensive” EBS/RDS