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Funding Bezos’ $400 Million Flying Fox Yacht?

February 18th, 2024

If you haven’t seen Jeff Bezos’ new $400 million dollar yacht, it’s pretty impressive. Here is a video walkthrough of it. We’re all for Jeff’s great success along with all of the advancements Amazon and AWS have given us.

However, when you are paying outrageous pricing for many of the services that AWS has to offer, it makes you think of alternatives. As companies ponder alternatives to run their infrastructure, a new breed of specialized hosting providers have emerged. From ones focusing solely on virtualization, to GPU only hosting to bare metal (like us..), there are many choices for companies now.

Connecting different clouds and hosting providers is much easier these days with companies like Megaport. They have very easy ways of connecting non-major cloud providers to on-prem data centers and hosting providers like us. In the image below, they already have large connections into different cloud providers and they provide a “port’ that you connect to and bam, it’s all connected together:

Hosted VIF

Additionally, networks have become so fast, there are many options solve any of your infrastructure needs which will be seamless to your end users. Remember, as some folks say, the great cloud exit is here so why not look around to how much money you can save with bare-metal.io.

When it comes to sheer performance and cost savings, we have the major clouds beat by a mile. Check out this pricing comparison:

After all, 2024 is the year of the “great cloud exit. Here are some articles showing how companies are waking up from their “cloud first” expensive strategy: 

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010 

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3684369/2023-could-be-the-year-of-public-cloud-repatriation.html 

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/bringing-the-cloud-back-on-premise-improving-security-and-reducing-costs/ 

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3704228/cloud-may-be-overpriced-compared-to-on-premises-systems.html 

https://humanprogress.org/trends/vastly-cheaper-computation/ 

https://kpmg.com/uk/en/blogs/home/posts/2023/04/why-a–cloud-exit-strategy–is-essential-to-enable-the-future.html

So, what are you waiting for?

Contact us and we can show you how to save money instead of funding $400 million dollar yachts…