Dinesh Majrekar retweetledi
Am I the only person who wants to publicly talk about hyperscaler cloud providers nickel and diming their customers?
Behind closed doors people constantly bemoan them, but publicly it seems as if nobody wants to criticise.
Years ago, when the concept of cloud was first devised, the promise was: lower costs and more flexible on-demand computing...a dream AWS originally sold to us!
In reality we've ended up in a world where a handful of giant providers lock businesses into their ecosystem. Once you're in, it's virtually impossible to get out unless you play by their rules...constant price increases, hidden fees, new charges for features that were previously free, and proprietary lock-in.
When will companies wake up to the inflated costs of hyperscalers and the damage it's doing to their business growth, especially when you add in the complexity involved in managing services with a hyperscaler.
Before the cloud, IT infrastructure spend was a mere fraction of the proportion that companies spend today. At the rate we're going, it's going to become a much bigger percentage than companies even spend on their staff – and it's all going to a handful of giant companies who globally pay low single figure tax % contributions.
Is this what cloud was meant to be?
At Civo, we're delivering on the original promise of cloud. We're committed to working for our customers and not with interests purely aligned to shareholders, no short-termism through nickel and diming to hit another quarter's earnings target!!!
It's about resetting the balance and delivering a cloud that is fair, equitable and open, which stays true to the original promise of the cloud, by supporting business growth and not hindering companies through escalating costs, vendor lock-in and other things that are taken from your control.
Change needs to happen...it's coming!
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