>The bill is not only astronomically high but it's also unpredictable and uncontrollable.
If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored.
>Meanwhile, keep in mind that the likes of Dropbox gave AWS a try but in the end learned from their experience and opted to migrate out after only 5 years.
Dropbox is memorable because they migrated off which says what many other companies don't do.
As you can tell by the massive growth of Azure many large enterprise companies definitely see the value despite already have their own datacenters.
> If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored.
This is the very first time I hear anyone describe AWS services as "fairly predictable and well monitored", because there is simply no such thing. There are professional services being sold at a premium whose value proposition is to make sense of AWS billing and reign it in. With AWS, your company simply sets a budget with a significant slack and hope for the best.
> Dropbox is memorable because they migrated off which says what many other companies don't do.
Not true. Dropbox is memorable because it was depicted as a poster child of AWS, which ultimately found out it was not worth it at all. And Dropbox is not alone.
If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored.
>Meanwhile, keep in mind that the likes of Dropbox gave AWS a try but in the end learned from their experience and opted to migrate out after only 5 years.
Dropbox is memorable because they migrated off which says what many other companies don't do.
As you can tell by the massive growth of Azure many large enterprise companies definitely see the value despite already have their own datacenters.