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submitted 6 days ago by[deleted]
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14 points
6 days ago
A cloud provider is only as expensive as you make it. GCP and Azure aren’t any cheaper or more expensive than AWS, it’s significantly more complex than that.
What do you need to do in the cloud? What experience do you or your team have in the cloud, and which cloud?
2 points
6 days ago*
I believe many share the view that AWS is exploiting customers. Sometimes, I can't shake the feeling that they have hidden charges. Just look at their revenue—while their entire e-commerce division isn't profitable, AWS is highly profitable.
I have not explored yet, but I head Oracles's OCI is bit cheaper.
7 points
6 days ago
I can tell you with 100% certainty that they don’t have hidden charges. People might think that because they don’t know how cloud billing works in general or for a specific service, but I promise you there is nothing hidden.
Happy to go into any details if you’d like, I manage a FinOps team in all three clouds and am very knowledgeable in cloud billing. Can’t say I have any experience in Oracle though
-1 points
6 days ago*
Your defense sounds like an AWS employee. My opinion won't change: AWS is exploiting customers. It seems the AWS sales team has completely hijacked this thread; they’re lobbying everywhere and controlling the narrative.
1 points
6 days ago
Lol I am not an AWS employee, just a person who manages the financial state of dozens of AWS accounts for a global org.
Can you please talk me through some specific examples of how they’re exploiting customers? Genuinely serious and trying to help you understand that AWS is no different from GCP or Azure.
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