> Cloud providers have hobbled growth by overcharging
Just stop there.
What the author (and I!) want is for my computer on my desk to have a seamless integration with the Cosmic AC in Hyperspace.
The problem is that the transition point costs me money and the amount is generally unknown or unpredictable.
My laptop or desktop have a fixed price and then I get to use them infinitely. Until that becomes true for the cloud, it will always be hamstrung.
(There is a secondary argument that progress in computing has been held up by the fact that UPLOAD speeds basically haven't moved in 20 years--but that's for another day).
To follow up on this, computers are really powerful and I want to work when the net is down or otherwise unavailable. Yeah, I can use the cloud for production work but why must I rely on other resources when developing tools or applications. This is just a cash and time sink…
I considered cloud for my ML application that uses terabytes of proprietary data. I took one look at those egress costs and bought my own server for less than the cost of one full egress plus a short period of running time.
Just the thought that they might one day up those charges all of their own accord makes it even more of a non-starter.
Completely agree, and the Oct 2022 GCP decision to start charging "egress" fees for accessing multi-region storage buckets _within_ GCP was not much appreciated either!
Thankfully, Cloudflare's come about with basically free egress. They're just kind of a weird shape because the cloud services they offer are of a different shape than usual.
lock in mentality. free data in but high charges out. although azure <-> oracle cloud have gone to zero rated egress for one use case. will be interesting to see if it extends to other use cases and/or clouds.
