Re: out
"We just barely pay six USD figures in support each year, which in the grand scheme of things is a bargain considering what we recieve. We pay 10 the annual support EVERY MONTH for AWS,"
Did you factor in the cost of your fibre channel switches, your SAN, your energy consumption, and your data centre maintenance? What about replacing your old servers, SANs, and switches every hardware refresh? How about patching servers, AV, ESXi upgrades, and OS upgrades? What about your DR site? How much does that cost? When you start to look at the big picture, not just the cost of VMware/support, then you may start to realise that AWS isn't that expensive after all. Of course, not saying its cheap, but if done correctly, there are ways to at least make cloud the same costs as on-prem, and potentially less.
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