Re: Have you outgrown cloud/utility services and went back to your own bare metal?

If you get real big at AWS, you can start negotiating with them for special deals. I would assume the same from all other vendors.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:34 PM, jallspaw wrote:

Does anyone have any experience with organizations who have 'outgrown'
using a cloud/utility service? At some point, either the application
is specific enough to fall through the cracks of the cloud provider's
menu of offerings (or price menu) or the scale becomes large enough
that it doesn't make economic sense not to run your own machines.

More info here: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2008/02/27/when-do-you-get-too-big-to-use-cloudy-stuff/

I'm looking for examples of this, if you are one of those that outgrew
something like AWS, then please email me.
Why: finishing up a book for O'Reilly on capacity planning, will touch
on this stuff.

thanks in advance,
john allspaw