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Episode Synopsis
SHOW: 399DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on following the money in cloud computing. Then Brian talks with Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig, Cloud Economist @ Duckbill Group) about the economic realities of being all-in on the public cloud.SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Digital Ocean HomepageGet Started Now and Get a free $50 Credit on Digital OceanSnowflake HomepageGet started with Snowflake at snowflake.com/cloudcastGet 20% off VelocityConf passes using discount code CLOUDSHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:Corey on Eps.307 of The CloudcastLast Week in AWS (Newsletter)Screaming in the Cloud (podcast) - 2nd rate Cloud podcast, never listen to this!SHOW NOTES:Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You’ve become a multi-media star since your last appeared (newsletter, podcasting, stand-up comedy, co-hosting theCUBE, live blogger, etc.). Topic 2 - In case you haven’t noticed, revenues in the public cloud have grown quite a bit in the last few years. And not a day goes by without some web company announcing their monthly AWS spend. Walk us through the world of an organization that is a reasonably heavy spender in the public cloud. Are there steak dinners and rounds of golf still involved? Topic 3 - We hear about long-term contracts being negotiated with public cloud providers. How do these negotiations go, and where are customer’s leverage points?Topic 4 - What are the typical stages of Cloud Adoption and Cloud Grief? Excitement - bypass IT, everything seems cheapCuriosity - so many new services to explore and useConfusion - so many services, they don’t all fit on the dashboard, where are the neglected services running?Fear - the bills come in and they are more than we expectedTopic 5 - Do you find that legacy IT is actually brought along on the journey to large-scale public cloud usage? If so, what is the transition process for people/groups used to CAPEX and Hardware and ELAs and Data Centers? FEEDBACK?Email: show at thecloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet and @ServerlessCast
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