↳ In-reply-to » Basecamp Details 'Obscene' $3.2 Million Bill That Prompted It To Quit the Cloud An anonymous reader shares a report: David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of 37Signals -- which operates project management platform Basecamp and other products -- has detailed the colossal cloud bills that saw the outfit quit the cloud in October 2022. The CTO and creator of Ruby On Rails did all the sums and came up with an e ... ⌘ Read more

Hmmmm this story from Basemap and 37Signals in the cost of Cloud is really interesting to me. When I left Facebook™ I left with an internal post asking and discussions:

At what point or what scale does “Cloud” become too expensive.

The answer to this question may vary depending on your use-case / needs; but even at small-scale like running a home lab / mini dc like I do, the cost of cloud is insane (mostly in storage for me, but the compute would be kind of nuts too).

Remember kids:

Cloud™ is not cheaper.