cheaper cloud
2012-10-23 16:21:44.348674+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Yesterday I retweeted Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea):
arguing 'cloud' is cheaper for baseline capacity over anything but the shortest time frame betrays a failing in basic arithmetic
Which is cute, but not strictly true: There's also the case where adminning your machines has fixed costs, but you're only using fractional capabilities.
But it also got me thinking: Yesterday I was listening to the Petaluma City Council deliberating over an extension and modification of the garbage collection contract. With the great rush towards "privatization" in government services, on well established processes, where do the efficiencies come from? Clearly those who want to take over the process from the city think they can run it more efficiently and take the profits (and those who push for this think there are these opportunities), but I suspect that most often those profits are things that involve either quality of service or ability to respond to changing circumstances, or similar.
In unredlate news, Amazon's EC2 cloud service has been having troubles again...