ByteDance launches a raft of public cloud services

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has launched a raft of new public cloud services for its excitingly dubbed Volcano Engine. ByteDance discussed its cloud ambitions in 2020 when it offered a limited range of services. Volcano Engine also became a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in the same year. In mid-2021 …

[msknight]

Volcano Engine sounds apt.

...just spews a lot of hot air like it's parents social media platform.

[Anonymous Coward]

What benefit do "clouds" offer? To whom?

Sorry if it's a stupid question. I'm still struggling to understand.

It appears to me that cloud offerings make sense to players that work at a scale compatible with that of the providers themselves. E.g., a game company with subscriber counts in the tens of millions or something like that.

But for the vast majority of people, are they actually a good deal or wouldn't you just be better off with a couple of unmanaged VPS (or hosted hardware)?

Serious question.