Is bandwidth a key asset? Do you control your connection once it leaves your building? All the routers and networks between you and your customer? What about DNS? How much control do you believe you exert over the root name servers? What happens when your servers fail? Do you have in house electrical engineers and chip designers so you are in control of your key assets?
You wildly overblow the need for control and wildly undervalue the amount of control you have over a 3rd party vendor.
> How much would loss of that scheduling application for the 1 hour that it is really needed per day (to set up schedules) cost?
Weigh that against the cost of duplicating what amazon has + staffing + recruitment + retention of staff + building for them and their managers to work in + all the other costs. For a huge number of companies the cost/risk of AWS or the like is gonna be better than cost/risk of doing it themselves.
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Is bandwidth a key asset? Do you control your connection once it leaves your building? All the routers and networks between you and your customer? What about DNS? How much control do you believe you exert over the root name servers? What happens when your servers fail? Do you have in house electrical engineers and chip designers so you are in control of your key assets?
You wildly overblow the need for control and wildly undervalue the amount of control you have over a 3rd party vendor.
> How much would loss of that scheduling application for the 1 hour that it is really needed per day (to set up schedules) cost?
Weigh that against the cost of duplicating what amazon has + staffing + recruitment + retention of staff + building for them and their managers to work in + all the other costs. For a huge number of companies the cost/risk of AWS or the like is gonna be better than cost/risk of doing it themselves.