Cloud computing is cheaper, not because its actually cheaper, but because of elasticity. If you dont need elasticity, then yes, colo will always be cheaper. If you are in the cloud you should be autoscaling, as that is the main premise of why the cloud took over, and why the cloud can save you money. Only pay for what you need right now
That being said, if you can actually plan well enough in the future for colo, you can also pay 3 years in advanced for aws reserved, and pay significantly less than these prices.
I completely agree. I only mentioned because the article included providers that don’t include the same level of ecosystem benefits, which seems slightly unfair (from a CTO/board decision perspective). I think including a baseline colo option gives insight.
Also, purchasing Dell R7xx hardware, from our experience, has almost 100% uptime at scale, over the past 10+ years, confidently running a 3yr machine 5-7 yrs easily.
