In my opinion, a company can save money on a cloud if it has these things:
- Access to cheap real estate
- Access to enough human capital, especially a team of 80+ to operate all aspects of a cloud: hardware, switches, openstack / kubernetes
- Requires scale of 20k+ servers = 320k+ VMs and a strong inclination to not host on AWS/Azure/Others.
- Lease to servers costing about $250 / server / mo. With AMD, you could go half of that, with VMs costing $10 a month. Add network costs of $15 / 2 ports / server / month.
- Access to cheap real estate
- Access to enough human capital, especially a team of 80+ to operate all aspects of a cloud: hardware, switches, openstack / kubernetes
- Requires scale of 20k+ servers = 320k+ VMs and a strong inclination to not host on AWS/Azure/Others.
- Lease to servers costing about $250 / server / mo. With AMD, you could go half of that, with VMs costing $10 a month. Add network costs of $15 / 2 ports / server / month.