Tech Talk Episode 19 – The hidden cost of public cloud

Too often I run into both management and engineers that default to the thinking that migrating infrastructures to Cloud computing will reduce costs.  It’s true that there are some capital expenses that will be reduced once you account for depreciation but I think people are a little over optimistic in the amount of operating expenses that will be realized by moving to the public cloud.  I talk about a couple of these areas on the latest installment of my Tech Talks.