Evernote’s transition to Google Cloud Platform
I can understand that a company wants to do away with the distraction of having to worry about running a datacentre but is using one of the major cloud services cheaper than running your own? Amazon and Microsoft seem to be making healthy profits off their cloud services. That's part of your cost.Now it may be that even if more expensive, it is a better use of your capital (renting instead of owning so that you can invest your capital in higher return investments like hiring better people). But is it cheaper, at an equivalent level of service / redundancy?