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With fixed hardware, you're always planning for max workloads.

The systems are scaled up for the "Black friday" sales event.

With cloud, you will plan for the steady state and just boost it up when you need to.

The anti-pattern is usually that when on-prem hits 80% load, some engineer is usually tapped to weed out all the slow code to push past procurement delays.

While in cloud, people just throw more hardware at it and ignore low hanging performance problems which are costing them money (& unlike the on-prem, fixing it will immediately reflect in the budget the next day).




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