Cloud Computing is great. It gives you practically instant scalability with no need for a large infrastructure team and guaranteed up times, plus the ability to try scaled-down versions of your projects at negligible costs before investing in major infrastructure.
So it came as a surprise to me to discover that, after a certain tipping point, cloud computing is actually horrendously cost ineffective! We're not talking a few hundred dollars here, we're talking up to double the IT budget you'd be paying to run the majority of your systems in house. That doesn't even include any in-direct cost-savings such as reduced legal fees from simpler regulatory compliance! It turns out that GDPR and similar laws also become surprisingly simple when your customer's data is physically located on servers you control.
Join me for this talk to hear a few examples and a couple of options to move from someone else's computer to one of yours!