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Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation

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242 points panrobo | 1 comments | 05 Nov 24 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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cyberax ◴[05 Nov 24 21:26 UTC] No.42055309[source]▶
The article is incredibly thin on details.

In my experience, it comes down to two factors:

1. Egress cost. Cloud hosting providers have absolutely insane egress pricing. It's beyond stupid at this point, if you want to host anything bandwidth-intensive.

2. Storage pricing.

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1. hylaride ◴[05 Nov 24 21:38 UTC] No.42055399[source]▶
"Storage is cheap, but moving it ain't" is a quote a former co-worker frequently liked to remind people. The quote applied at the low level (eg between CPUs and their caches) all the way up to networking.

Anyways, cloud provider egress costs can be ridiculous. Amazon charges for egress transfer out of AWS, then quite a bit for NAT gateway transfer, and AWS network firewall on top of that (we dropped the firewall and moved our bulk traffic to a specific outer subnet because of that). Oh, and you can't give many serverless products (eg lambda) elastic IPs, so out the NAT gateway it goes...

So. Frustrating.