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Can someone explain the point of cloud like I'm a 60 year old grumpy Unix admin because you could just get a real server from another company by now. If the whole point is unlimited capacity but you don't have unlimited capacity and you're paying through the nose then why? Compliance?

>>direwo+(OP)
Compliance and tooling are a big part of it, but the places where the big public cloud providers shine is the PaaS offerings that you don't need to write yourself.

In Azure, for example, it's possible to use Entra as your Active Directory, along with the fine grained RBAC built in to the platform. On a host that just gives you VPS/DS, you have to run your own AD (and secondary backups). Likewise with things like webservers (IIS) and SQL Server, which both have PaaS offerings with SLAs and all the infra management tasks handled for you in an easily auditable way.

If you just need a few servers at the IaaS level, the big cloud platforms don't look like a great value. But, if you do a SOC2, for example, you're going to have to build all the documentation and observability/controls yourself.

>>direwo+(OP)
At my day job, serverless stuff is great because in a small team with limited budget we don't need extra people to deal with patching, fail-overs etc.