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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/6/2022 8:56 AM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
> "Public Cloud" is just another name for outsourcing parts of your IT to
> other vendors like Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS) in return for paying a
> fee for monthly services your company has contracted with.
> 
> Like outsourcing, moving to a public cloud means you are leaving behind
> those portions of your current service model that you decide can be done
> better by someone other than your current provider e.g. your internal IT

I believe that flexibility/scalability and the paying for usage model
is what is driving cloud not a desire to out-source.

But cloud does imply some outsourcing.

IaaS:
* maintenance of facility (power, cooling, network connectivity)
* installation and monitoring of hardware

PaaS/FaaS:
* maintenance of facility (power, cooling, network connectivity)
* installation and monitoring of hardware
* OS installation/maintenance/monitoring
* platform software installation/maintenance/monitoring

SaaS:
* maintenance of facility (power, cooling, network connectivity)
* installation and monitoring of hardware
* OS installation/maintenance/monitoring
* platform software installation/maintenance/monitoring
* application development
* application installation/maintenance/monitoring

> When all of the real costs of "Public Cloud" outsourcing is considered, it
> becomes pretty clear why many M-L companies are deciding to go with the
> "Private Cloud" model whereby they have many of the same features as a
> Public Cloud e.g. provisioning on demand, capacity on demand, but with a
> much more integrated service model and with more integrated security that
> does not require them to manage and contract out to many and often different
> outsourcer vendors.

Some go for private cloud.

Some go for hybrid cloud.

But the majority goes for public cloud.

Arne