If you’re already on the cloud and operating at sufficiently large scale, moving to colo is REALLY hard.
It took Dropbox ~2.5 years.
There’s a LOT of room to cut costs by moving off the cloud—AWS has profit margins ~30% even with significant investments into R&D. But I’m not sure that moving off the cloud is the best move for a private equity firm looking to quickly extract returns. It’s a lot easier to tweak pricing / cut staff / etc
If you’re already on the cloud and operating at sufficiently large scale, moving to colo is REALLY hard.
It took Dropbox ~2.5 years.
There’s a LOT of room to cut costs by moving off the cloud—AWS has profit margins ~30% even with significant investments into R&D. But I’m not sure that moving off the cloud is the best move for a private equity firm looking to quickly extract returns. It’s a lot easier to tweak pricing / cut staff / etc