[ep103]

The benefit of cloud has always been that it allows the company to trade capex for opex. From an engineering perspective, it trades scalability for complexity, but this is a secondary effect compared to the former tradeoff.

[PeterStuer]

"trade capex for opex"

This has nothing to do with cloud. Businesses have forever turned IT expenses from capex to opex. We called this "operating leases".

[et1337]

I’ve heard this a lot, but… doesn’t Hetzner do the same?

[radiator]

Hetzner is also a cloud. You avoid buying hardware, you rent it instead. You can rent either VMs or dedicated servers, but in both cases you own nothing.