June 22, 2026 at 12:00 am
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June 22, 2026 at 5:27 pm
I can remember Buck Woody describing the cloud as somebody else's computer. I sometimes think that someone else is Don Vito Corleone.
37 Signals wrote about their repatriation from the cloud. It's easy to move into the cloud, not so easy to move back. The chances are that you've lost skilled infrastructure folk, and their skills don't grow on trees.
I spent a lot of time putting in monitoring for various SaaS, DBaaS and PaaS facilities. There were some hard lessons learned that made this necessary. There are some recurrent costs that can be hard to track down.
Egress charges can be a rude shock. We tried to solve a BI dashboard problem by telling the BI tool to do an extract rather than use a live connection to the DB. If your BI tool is in one region and your data is in another, that will sting a bit.
With AWS, there are many valid ways to solve a problem. The trick is to know when one is more appropriate and cost-effective than another. Get it right, and you may get away with a substantial part of your estate under free tier pricing. Get it wrong, and Don Corleone will present his bill.
June 22, 2026 at 6:01 pm
A lot of people get it wrong. Or they choose not to work on getting it right, which brings that bill.
I've had a few people look to move some things back on-premises, especially when it's a lift-and-shift item. It's easier to leave, though networking, routing, DNS, etc. makes it a project.
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