Posts in 2023
  • S3: Elite to Mediocre

    2023-12-26 in Cloud Exit

    WeChat Column | Vonng’s Blog Object storage (S3) has been a defining service of cloud computing, once hailed as a paragon of cost reduction in the cloud era. Unfortunately, with the evolution of hardware and the emergence of resources cloud …

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  • Reclaim Hardware Bonus from the Cloud

    2023-11-16 in Cloud Exit

    Hardware is interesting again, with the AI wave fueling a GPU frenzy. However, the intrigue isn’t limited to GPUs —— developments in CPUs and SSDs remain largely unnoticed by the majority of devs. A whole generation of developers is obscured by cloud …

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  • FinOps: Endgame Cloud-Exit

    2023-07-06 in Cloud Exit

    WeChat Column | Vonng’s Blog At the SACC 2023 FinOps session, I fiercely criticized cloud vendors. This is a transcript of my speech, introducing the ultimate FinOps concept — cloud-exit and its best practice. TL; DR Misaligned FinOps Focus: …

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  • SLA: Placebo or Insurance?

    2023-06-12 in Cloud Exit

    In the world of cloud computing, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are seen as a cloud provider’s commitment to the quality of its services. However, a closer examination of these SLAs reveals that they might not offer the safety net one might …

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  • EBS: Pig Slaughter Scam

    2023-03-15 in Cloud Exit

    WeChat Column | Vonng’s Blog We already answer the question: Is RDS an Idiot Tax?. But when compared to the hundredfold markup of public cloud block storage, cloud databases seem almost reasonable. This article uses real data to reveal the …

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  • RDS: The Idiot Tax

    2023-01-30 in Cloud Exit

    WeChat Column | Vonng’s Blog Winter is coming, and big tech companies are starting to lay off employees, entering a mode of cost reduction and efficiency increase. As public cloud databases, often referred to as the “slaughterhouse …

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