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The Many Other High Costs Cloud Users Pay

June 25, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

Isn’t it funny how the same hyperscalers who are maniacal about building everything themselves – and who are making a fortune selling access to their infrastructure as cloud services – want you to use their Seriously Hard Information Technology and stop using your own? …

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