Cloud

S3 is no longer “cheap” with the evolution of hardware, and other challengers such as cloudflare R2.

Hardware is interesting again, developments in CPUs and SSDs remain largely unnoticed by the majority of devs. A whole generation of developers is obscured by cloud hype and marketing noise.

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.

SLA is a marketing tool rather than insurance. In the worst-case scenario, it’s an unavoidable loss; at best, it provides emotional comfort.

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