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SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

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589 points greghn | 1 comments | 20 Feb 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.372s | source
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teaearlgraycold ◴[20 Feb 24 17:13 UTC] No.39443860[source]▶
What’s a good small cloud competitor to AWS? For teams that just need two AZs to get HA and your standard stuff like VMs, k8s, etc.
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ThrowawayTestr ◴[20 Feb 24 17:16 UTC] No.39443904[source]▶
Buy a server
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nullindividual ◴[20 Feb 24 17:22 UTC] No.39443993[source]▶
I don't like this answer.

When I look at cloud, I get to think "finally! No more hardware to manage. No OS to manage". It's the best thing about the cloud, provided your workload is amenable to PaaS. It's great because I don't have to manage Windows or IIS. Microsoft does that part for me and significantly cheaper than it would be to employ me to do that work.

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1. adastra22 ◴[20 Feb 24 17:33 UTC] No.39444126[source]▶
There is tooling to provide the same PaaS interface though, so your cost doing those things amounts to running OS updates.