It appears that people who run computer systems for companies have discovered that the honeymoon is over, and the monopolists at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are aggressively raising prices for cloud services.
This sort of sh%$ is why people moved to PCs in the first place:
After an initial euphoric rush to the cloud, administrators are questioning the value and promise of the tech giants' services.
According to a report published by UK cloud outfit Civo, more than a third of organizations surveyed reckoned that their move to the cloud had failed to live up to promises of cost-effectiveness. Over half reported a rise in their cloud bill.
Although the survey, unsurprisingly, paints Civo in a flattering light, some of its figures may make uncomfortable reading for customers sold on the promises from hyperscalers. Like-for-like comparisons for a simple three-node cluster with 200 GB of persistent storage and a 5 TB data transfer showed prices going from $1,278.58 in 2022 to $1,458.68 in 2024 on Microsoft Azure.
For Google, the price went from $1,107.61 to $1,250.35. According to Civo's figures, the cost at AWS increased from $1,142.46 to $1,234.59.
Just as an FYI, this is 14.1% for Microsoft, 12.9% for Google, and 8.1% for Amazon.
As an aside, it seems to me that anyone managing IT for an enterprise had better be damn sure that they are not locked into a single provider.
They need to be able to move to local machines, or another cloud provider on a few days notice.
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