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  1. Well yes! It’s good to review that list from time to time. While cloud does not entirely eliminate your devops/sysadmin staff it certainly reduces it. Did you even mention how big cloud vendors (I assume!) also have redundant communications lines, even multiple vendors, to make sure connectivity is never lost? And carefully run the lines from different sides of the building, so a single back-hoe doesn’t kill them accidentally all at once?

    That said, I’ve been disappointed at some of Microsoft’s Azure pricing. The bottom tiers tend to be a little too cheap, but I’m OK with that, LOL. The top tiers, however, tend to be priced linearly, and that is a major, major error. They should be priced logarithmically, to offer customers a large volume discount. Yes, some of this comes in via corporate volume agreements, but I’d rather it was straightforward, right there on the price sheet. In my last situation we were not able to find any person or policy at Microsoft who could deal with a small company using a lot of cloud resources and getting them priced appropriately.

    So, cloud is still a concept in need of further development, in some cases. But just conceptually, yes, your list is excellent.

  2. This was very good article. We are already seeing the reduction in Corp IT staff already needed to run our solution and seems to be built better from the ground up and quicker to market. I think the trend will continue as Microsoft also buys on volume and at a much large volume than any fortune 500 company does. With that in mind, they will get economies of scale and so will the people using it. It might feel like you are getting nickel and dimed to death, but there’s actually a lot of flexibility put into the pricing to allow for anyone to design something of value quickly and make your time to market quicker. Spinning up a VM on premise could take weeks on premise and then the discussion of cost was always a hard one on premise and allocation model was flawed. If we asked for a bigger server say for SSAS on premise with 128 GB RAM, well then they would balk because we used up the VM Host too much to one application. So yes, getting things done quicker is such an improvement with Azure.

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