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Cloud Services are an amazing tool in a hybrid environment to cost effectively offer services that are difficult to replicate at smaller scales, but you shouldn't have everything up there.

The biggest expenses in Cloud are for hot data such as realtime storage, egress and processing. For customer facing services the Cloud is a great albeit expensive solution to maintain uptime, but for anything that doesn't need realtime responses the Cloud is just the place to ramp up cost for no return.

At SMB Servers we use some Cloud services ourselves but keep our bulk workers physical and on-prem which not only saves a lot but allows us to have handy mountains of extra cores, memory and storage for occasional bursty needs.

This was a great read that confirms a lot of our findings about full Cloud moves.

Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for a year or more in ad...