The analysis demonstrates rising compute costs in cloud services, indicating a shift from telcos’ past trends.
Editor Neil McNaughton compares the 20th Century Telcos’ evolution with the 21st Century birth of the Cloud provider. Both promised cheap bandwidth - comms for the telcos, compute for the clouds. But while comms costs are massively down, compute costs seem to be rising. And the unregulated cloud providers are much more successful at adding bells, whistles and lock-in to their services. With OSDU a case in point. But where is the end user in all of this?
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