We’ve seen a lot of noise lately of companies talking about “leaving the cloud” or the “great cloud exit”.
If you haven’t watched this excellent video on this subject, I highly recommend it: http://tinyurl.com/35hxu9u7
To be clear, when we say “the cloud” we are talking about one of the top three vendors which are AWS, Azure and GCP. Companies loved the idea of having infrastructure at their fingertips and migrated en masse. Additionally, companies that have been created in the last 10 or so years started in one of these as well (mostly in AWS).
With data volumes increasing at alarming rates, companies need larger and larger servers to analyze this data. Modern OLAP engines such as ClickHouse need very fast and very large servers to provide millisecond results for queries. Additionally, companies think object storage is cheap when it’s not the storage costs, it’s the access costs. Below is an example of these costs. This is an actual S3 invoice from AWS. The cost is $21,000 with $7,815 being actual storage costs and the rest being API costs. Yes, that other $14,000 is just interacting with this storage. Just for ONE MONTH! That is just crazy:
Interested in hearing more? Here are some articles discussing how companies are looking starting to wake up from their “cloud first” directives to look around for better alternatives:
- https://www.infoworld.com/article/3711843/why-exit-the-cloud-37signals-explains.html
- https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-cloud-exit-thegigabit-yk9tc
- https://basecamp.com/cloud-exit
- https://davidregalado255.medium.com/basecamp-ditches-the-cloud-and-saves-1m-aa8c66be7ac7
- https://kpmg.com/uk/en/blogs/home/posts/2023/04/why-a–cloud-exit-strategy–is-essential-to-enable-the-future.html
With bare-metal.io, we provide large, high performing servers at a fixed cost. Plenty of bandwidth and you aren’t charged for storage API costs of course.
Contact us for more information. We can provide custom quotes as well.