Accounting software biz Intuit flogging bit barn to throw its lot in with AWS

Financial software flinger Intuit is binning its biggest data centre and plonking its corporate backends onto AWS – in another win for the public cloud's biggest player. The company is ditching its own data centre in Washington State, US, and throwing its lot in with Amazon after previously migrating some of its flagship apps …

[Dwarf]

They seem to be going Intuit in a big way.

I just hope that they have not clouded their judgement.

[Korev]

Bursy workload

This probably makes a lot more sense than many other on-prem to cloud migration that we see. As people normally need to file accounts / taxes once a year the workload is very variable and it saves on having lots of hardware just waiting for the busy periods.

We probably need a better cloud icon -->

[Ken Moorhouse]

Re: Burs[t]y workload

As these tax deadlines affect everyone at the same time then AWS will have the problem of over-resourcing and having spare capacity lying around for long periods, or doing an Azure - limiting access to new data instances (as happened recently). There will be a temptation to levy Bursty Premium Pricing too.

[MatthewSt]

Re: Burs[t]y workload

The tax deadline might be the same for everyone, but it's not the same time as the black Friday peak, or the Christmas rush, or the superb owl (as autocorrect calls it) so it's not like the capacity is idle the rest of the year

[Anonymous Coward]

"We probably need a better cloud icon"

Why? When the "cloud" reach the "critical mass", it's exactly what will happen.... one day a chain reaction of errors will bring down a lot of "critical system".... they won't be able to stop it quiclky enough, and for some time it will be just like "the day after"....

[joed]

"it expects to recoup some of those losses through tax rebates"

So basically financial gimmicks on the backs of taxpayers (that had already been blocked from direct filing with IRS - by Intuit and alike).