It’s a great move, I 100% support. But I worry too many people don’t realize that it’s a long journey we’re just starting. A multi-years journey, if not decades long. The change, if change there is, won’t be instant. It also won’t be painless, seeing how so many people expect things to ‘just work’ a few may feel a little… frustrated. And this will also have a monetary cost too.
Businesses have been burned by Russia after the war started.
Now you have Trump behaving like a lovesick puppy towards Putin, talking about invading a free territories, the shadow president giving the salute. It can cost a lot to be stuck on the wrong side of the line when things get war-like.
Many will want to reduce that risk.
I’m looking to ditch them in the United States too
Last time I tried an independent data center, IBM snatched them up and the enshittifying commenced.
I hope this brings some return to on-premise. Most businesses can fully operate with a cheap sever instead of sending it all to azure.
Still more expensive in most cases simply because you need someone who manages it.
Well you also need someone that manages the Azure, get them to do it.
I fully accept this is because of lack of experience but i find it easier to deploy to my own linux server then to azure.
For Azure, there are established practices and recipes in place tho - you can hire an azure consultant that sets up the entire thing within 2 days, costs a couple thousand and at that point, it runs.
Don’t get me wrong, I love managing everything myself and I would love it we could go back to the self-hosted business time, but for larger businesses, outsourcing everything to the cloud is just better, not only cost-wise, but also because you’re basically handing the responsibility away.
Good. More, smaller cloud providers can only be better for everyone. More providers means it’s more likely we get true standards for how to interact with services, and that being portable will become a default. It’s hard to sell a locked-in product when there’s a dozen competitors who don’t lock people in.
Our datacenter infrastructure is currently mostly hosted on Azure, some on a Fujitsu DC. We used to be 100% in-house many years ago. How funny it would be if we had to go back to that in order to save costs.
What was also funny (to me) is how Azure was absolutely no-go after having tested it because of the lackluster performance (compared to our then-live platform). But as soon as MS sweetened the deal contract-wise, suddenly there were no lingering performance issues anymore.
Those dozens of emails of irate customers with ass-slow systems tell me differently, but ok. I’m not the one making millions in bonuses; the people who do surely know better than I do. I just get paid to tell those poor customers to fuck off in a more polite way.
I remember the “everything has to be cloud” days too.
The fool falls for it everytime.
Wish I had the charisma to have someone shoot themself in their own foot and pay me for it.
