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The benefit of cloud has always been that it allows the company to trade capex for opex. From an engineering perspective, it trades scalability for complexity, but this is a secondary effect compared to the former tradeoff.
PeterStuer
"trade capex for opex"

This has nothing to do with cloud. Businesses have forever turned IT expenses from capex to opex. We called this "operating leases".

et1337
I’ve heard this a lot, but… doesn’t Hetzner do the same?
radiator
Hetzner is also a cloud. You avoid buying hardware, you rent it instead. You can rent either VMs or dedicated servers, but in both cases you own nothing.

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