At the same time, our IT director is pushing to put everything in the cloud now. I already told him that’s a terrible idea, but he thinks it will be cheaper.
To be fair, it’s all about cost price. I think there is no way it would be cheaper and if that turns out to be true from the cost analysis, that discussion will be dead and buried.
The thing about cloud is that you pay for what you use. That can also be an issue too because if you leave servers you don’t use on the weekend or scale a bit more than you wanted, well, you pay for all of that. If it’s on-prem, then you’ve already paid for it. You’re not going to need to optimize any of those.
There’s the “FinOps” movement where we’re spending time trying to optimize cloud costs as much as we can.
There’s no right answer to me, completely depends on your company make up and all that.
At the same time, our IT director is pushing to put everything in the cloud now. I already told him that’s a terrible idea, but he thinks it will be cheaper.
To be fair, it’s all about cost price. I think there is no way it would be cheaper and if that turns out to be true from the cost analysis, that discussion will be dead and buried.
The thing about cloud is that you pay for what you use. That can also be an issue too because if you leave servers you don’t use on the weekend or scale a bit more than you wanted, well, you pay for all of that. If it’s on-prem, then you’ve already paid for it. You’re not going to need to optimize any of those.
There’s the “FinOps” movement where we’re spending time trying to optimize cloud costs as much as we can.
There’s no right answer to me, completely depends on your company make up and all that.