Cloud economics · Question 12 of 12
A controller compares only the hourly price of an EC2 instance with the purchase price of a server spread over five years and considers the cloud more expensive. Which objections are justified?
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Answer
- A Power, cooling, rooms and staff are missing from the server calculation
- B The own server is sized for peak load and is often idle
Explanation
A fair comparison looks at total cost of ownership: operations, rooms, energy, spare parts and working time, plus the low utilization of hardware bought for peaks. Outbound data transfer is billed separately for EC2 and therefore has to be added to the calculation.