I just Googled it. Gartner estimated $125 billion.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/cloud-and-colocation-d...
you have to do this for every single instance type they have, can't even experiment or test other instance types cause its too much trouble to get quota
21st century man…. it’s coming.
Computers don't fix everything. They just allow you to f*ck up bigger, harder, and faster, usually in the most banal way imaginable.
> Yes it’s weird that you have to ask them for instances which some actual physical person looks at your request, thinks about it and says yes or no to.
and low quota is low, like 10 cpu, so start a 2 node k8s cluster with 8cpu each? nope, go request quota increase
And sometimes, that is hard. I've had Azure support not able to understand what quota they need to raise / what quota is being requested. I had to at least link them to their own documentation on it… (partly the confusion is that quota support tickets allow selecting the quota as a piece of metadata on the ticket, but only for some quotas, and of course, mine was for one of the ones not listed. Why they don't just list all of them is anyone's guess.)
Instead of providing you with a list of the resources they do have, you have to play this weird game where you ask for specific instances in specific regions and then within several hours someone emails back to say yes or no.
If it’s no, you have to guess again where you might get the instance you want and email them again and ask.
I envisage going to an old shop, and asking the shopkeep for a compute instance in a region. He hobbles out the back, and after a long delay comes back and says “nope, don’t have no more of them, anything else you might want?”.
It’s surprising this how it works. Not the auto scaling cloud computing used to bring to mind.