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Streaming is still cheaper unless you get absolutely everything. It is also straightforward billing. The advertised price is the price you pay. I checked Comcast a week ago and they quote $70 with no contract. And then if you read the fine print, there is also a $25 broadcasting fee and a $10 sports fee. I am going to guess you also have a fee to rent the cable box for $10-15/month. They can still fuck themselves.
Agreed on Uber and Lyft.
Cloud was never cheaper.
Cloud can most definitely be cheaper than on prem when it is managed for scalability. It really depends on the use case, and once a company grows past a certain size with constant traffic then they probably should switch to on prem.
There are a lot of apps that the scalability makes a lot of sense for. Imagine a Christmas related web app. They only experience major traffic during the holidays, so scalable cloud resources would save a ton of money for that compared to an on prem solution.
True. It largely depends on your workload as well as how consistent it is and what services you are looking to offload. That said, there are a ton of smaller companies that think it is easy and cheap to just throw your servers in the cloud.