[PLUG] Linux and AWS: Cloud Chronicles

[Michael Dexter]

On 8/30/16 1:23 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> Amazon's services are often expensive compared to the cost of running
> those services in-house on bare metal -- but once you factor in the
> costs of leasing space and building out your own data center, they
> become reasonable.

Funny you should say that. I work with a storage vendor and while the 
"cloud" on-demand model works great for compute, it falls down 
completely for storage. A napkin-math calculation for 16TB allowed you 
to buy a new small NAS system every two or three months. :)

Michael