{"id":14689,"date":"2019-04-05T23:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T23:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/on-balance-the-cloud-has-been-a-huge-boon-to-startups.html"},"modified":"2019-04-05T23:48:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T23:48:03","slug":"on-balance-the-cloud-has-been-a-huge-boon-to-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/on-balance-the-cloud-has-been-a-huge-boon-to-startups.html","title":{"rendered":"On balance, the cloud has been a huge boon to startups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s startups have<\/span> a distinct advantage when it comes to launching a company because of the public cloud. You don\u2019t have to build infrastructure or worry about what happens when you scale too quickly. The cloud vendors take care of all that for you.<\/p>\n

But last month when Pinterest announced its IPO<\/a>, the company\u2019s cloud spend raised eyebrows. You see, the company is spending $750 million a year<\/a> on cloud services, more specifically for AWS. When your business is primarily focused on photos and video, and needs to scale at a regular basis, that bill is going to be high.<\/p>\n

That price tag prompted Erica Joy, a Microsoft engineer,<\/a> to publish this tweet and start a little internal debate here at TechCrunch. Startups, after all, have a dog in this fight, and it\u2019s worth exploring if the cloud is helping feed the startup ecosystem, or sending your bills soaring, as they have with Pinterest.<\/p>\n

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after discussion with some folks about this article and the generally ridiculous amount of money startups pay for aws, i am wondering if there is an effective, easy to use, open source tool that helps startups reduce aws spend. https:\/\/t.co\/GBh40b4UOH<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 EricaJoy (@EricaJoy) March 25, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For starters, it\u2019s worth pointing out that Ms. Joy works for Microsoft, which just happens to be a primary competitor of Amazon\u2019s in the cloud business. Regardless of her personal feelings on the matter, I\u2019m sure Microsoft would be more than happy to take over that $750 million bill from Amazon. It\u2019s a nice chunk of business; but all that aside, do startups benefit from having access to cloud vendors?<\/p>\n

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