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		throw0101a on Oct 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cloud Computer > Absolutely. The point of cloud computing is that I don't have to care where something is running and that I (theoretically) have infinite elasticity and can scale in and out as fast and much as I need to. Define "I"? I-as-developer can call an VMware/OpenStack API with an on-prem/private cloud and get a new instance just as easily as calling an AWS API. I-as-developer does not have to worry about elasticity if the IT hardware folks have the capacity.

steve1977 on Oct 26, 2023 [–]

Private cloud is a marketing misnomer.

throw0101a on Oct 26, 2023 | | [–]

I'm sure all the folks running OpenStack in-house, including NASA and CERN, would disagree.

From a developer's perspective an API call is an API call, and to them it's just another instance.

zeckalpha on Oct 26, 2023 | | [–]

VPC doubly so then.

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