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Cloud-Exit
Ruohang Feng
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Ruohang Feng
Pigsty Founder, @Vonng
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People often say the cloud is great, managed services reduce your weight. I say the cloud's a slaughter plate, with hundred-fold markups that create.

Cyber landlords monopolize and control, pricing exploitation takes its toll. Outsource ops while freeloading open source, rent computers and hype concepts as discourse.

Everyone rushes to cloud services high, not noticing expenses flowing by. Cloud rental prices too high to maintain, open source self-building more stable and sane.

Cloud exit pioneers blaze the trail, shouldering trends without fail. Not fearing clouds that block the view, only because we’re on the frontline true.


Once upon a time, “going to cloud” became almost politically correct in tech circles, with an entire generation of application developers having their vision obscured by the cloud. Let us use hard data analysis and firsthand experience to clarify the value and traps of the public cloud rental model - for your reference and consideration in this era of cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

Cloud Exit Case Studies
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DHH: Cloud Exit Exceeded Expectations, Could Save $100 Million

Cloud Exit Odyssey: Is It Time to Abandon Cloud Computing?

Refusing Complexity Masturbation, Cloud Exit Still Maintains Stable Operations

Six Months Cloud Exit Saves Tens of Millions: DHH Cloud Exit FAQ

Ahrefs Doesn’t Go Cloud, Saves $400 Million

Amateur Hour Drama: Alibaba Cloud RDS Disaster

Paying to Suffer: The Suckers Escaping Cloud Computing Hell

Epic Failures
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What Can We Learn from Alibaba Cloud’s Epic Global Outage

Tencent Cloud: The Face-Losing Amateur Hour

Dark Forest: Destroying AWS Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names

Database Deletion Supreme: Google Cloud Nuked a Major Fund’s Entire Cloud Account

Global Windows Blue Screen: Amateur Hour on Both Sides

Infrastructure Resource Analysis
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Analyzing Cloud Computing’s True Cost

Skinning Object Storage: From Cost Reduction to Slaughter

Is Cloud Disk a Slaughter Plate?

Is Cloud Database an IQ Tax

Garbage Tencent Cloud CDN: From Getting Started to Giving Up

A Story of Alibaba Cloud DCDN Charging 1600 RMB in Just 32 Seconds

Business Model Analysis
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Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?

FinOps Endpoint is Cloud Exit

Why Hasn’t Domestic Cloud Computing Made More Money Than Sand Mining?

Is Cloud SLA a Placebo?

Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First

RDS Criticism
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Is Cloud Database a Slaughter Plate

The Collapse of High Availability Disaster Recovery Myths

RDS Castrated PostgreSQL’s Soul

Cloud RDS: From Database Drop to Exit

Refuting “Again, Why You Shouldn’t Hire DBAs”

Satirical Portraits
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Sexologists, Chemists, and Bullshit Literature Masters in the Software Industry [Repost]

Toothpaste Cloud? Please Stop Praising Cloud Providers [Repost]

Internet Tech Master Crash Course [Repost]

The Amateur Hour Behind Internet Outages [Repost]

Customers in Cloud Providers’ Eyes: Poor, Idle, and Lacking Love [Repost]

Business Commentary
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The Desperation Behind Alibaba Cloud’s Price Cuts [Repost]

How State-Owned Enterprises Inside the Gate View Cloud Providers Outside [Repost]

Alibaba Cloud Stuck at Government Enterprise Customer Doors [Repost]

What Exactly Are Public Cloud Providers Selling as Cloud Computing? [Repost]

Are Tencent Cloud and Alibaba Cloud Really Doing Cloud Computing? [Repost]

Topic Categories
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Amazon

Alibaba Cloud

Tencent Cloud

Cloudflare

Google

Microsoft

Oracle OCI

Others

DHH

DBA vs RDS

Open Source Software

Cloud Computing Mudslide Songs
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Sweet Punk: https://app.suno.ai/song/98f03bcd-5b4d-428f-a3f1-f581910d2e56

Funny Catchy: https://app.suno.ai/song/308069a2-9d97-41c0-b1a9-ce14eb137ffe

New Era: https://app.suno.ai/song/81e1b275-4652-4442-aa47-3127171d874d

Death Rock: https://app.suno.ai/song/6c203c72-0ce7-4b63-a447-a63b31080776

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