People often say the cloud is great, managed services reduce your weight. I say the cloud's a slaughter plate, with hundred-fold markups that create.
Cyber landlords monopolize and control, pricing exploitation takes its toll. Outsource ops while freeloading open source, rent computers and hype concepts as discourse.
Everyone rushes to cloud services high, not noticing expenses flowing by. Cloud rental prices too high to maintain, open source self-building more stable and sane.
Cloud exit pioneers blaze the trail, shouldering trends without fail. Not fearing clouds that block the view, only because we’re on the frontline true.
Once upon a time, “going to cloud” became almost politically correct in tech circles, with an entire generation of application developers having their vision obscured by the cloud. Let us use hard data analysis and firsthand experience to clarify the value and traps of the public cloud rental model - for your reference and consideration in this era of cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
Cloud Exit Case Studies#
DHH: Cloud Exit Exceeded Expectations, Could Save $100 Million
Cloud Exit Odyssey: Is It Time to Abandon Cloud Computing?
Refusing Complexity Masturbation, Cloud Exit Still Maintains Stable Operations
Six Months Cloud Exit Saves Tens of Millions: DHH Cloud Exit FAQ
Ahrefs Doesn’t Go Cloud, Saves $400 Million
Amateur Hour Drama: Alibaba Cloud RDS Disaster
Paying to Suffer: The Suckers Escaping Cloud Computing Hell
Epic Failures#
What Can We Learn from Alibaba Cloud’s Epic Global Outage
Tencent Cloud: The Face-Losing Amateur Hour
Dark Forest: Destroying AWS Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names
Database Deletion Supreme: Google Cloud Nuked a Major Fund’s Entire Cloud Account
Global Windows Blue Screen: Amateur Hour on Both Sides
Infrastructure Resource Analysis#
Analyzing Cloud Computing’s True Cost
Skinning Object Storage: From Cost Reduction to Slaughter
Is Cloud Disk a Slaughter Plate?
Garbage Tencent Cloud CDN: From Getting Started to Giving Up
A Story of Alibaba Cloud DCDN Charging 1600 RMB in Just 32 Seconds
Business Model Analysis#
Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?
Why Hasn’t Domestic Cloud Computing Made More Money Than Sand Mining?
Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First
RDS Criticism#
Is Cloud Database a Slaughter Plate
The Collapse of High Availability Disaster Recovery Myths
RDS Castrated PostgreSQL’s Soul
Cloud RDS: From Database Drop to Exit
Refuting “Again, Why You Shouldn’t Hire DBAs”
Satirical Portraits#
Sexologists, Chemists, and Bullshit Literature Masters in the Software Industry [Repost]
Toothpaste Cloud? Please Stop Praising Cloud Providers [Repost]
Internet Tech Master Crash Course [Repost]
The Amateur Hour Behind Internet Outages [Repost]
Customers in Cloud Providers’ Eyes: Poor, Idle, and Lacking Love [Repost]
Business Commentary#
The Desperation Behind Alibaba Cloud’s Price Cuts [Repost]
How State-Owned Enterprises Inside the Gate View Cloud Providers Outside [Repost]
Alibaba Cloud Stuck at Government Enterprise Customer Doors [Repost]
What Exactly Are Public Cloud Providers Selling as Cloud Computing? [Repost]
Are Tencent Cloud and Alibaba Cloud Really Doing Cloud Computing? [Repost]
Topic Categories#
Amazon
- 2024-01-13 Paying to Suffer: The Suckers Escaping Cloud Computing Hell
- 2024-05-23 Ahrefs Doesn’t Go Cloud, Saves $400 Million
- 2024-04-30 Cloud Dark Forest: Destroying Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names
- 2024-03-26 Redis Going Closed Source is a Disgrace to “Open Source” and Public Cloud
- 2024-03-14 RDS Castrated PostgreSQL’s Soul
- 2023-12-27 Skinning Object Storage: From Cost Reduction to Slaughter
- 2023-11-17 Reclaiming Computer Hardware Dividends
- 2023-10-29 Is It Time to Abandon Cloud Computing?
- 2023-07-07 Cloud Exit Odyssey
Alibaba Cloud
- 2025-07-03 Amateur Hour Fight, 30 Million Loss? Alibaba vs Little Wang God
- 2025-06-26 Alibaba Cloud Outage, CDN Down, Remember to Apply for SLA Compensation
- 2025-06-06 Major Outage: Alibaba Cloud’s Core Domain Got Dragged Away
- 2025-05-30 Alibaba Cloud: Rotten from Top to Bottom (Cleaned Version)
- 2025-05-30 Hardcoded Password Leak, Alibaba Cloud’s Software Engineering is Too Poor [Ma Gong]
- 2024-11-11 Alipay Crashed? Double 11 Troublemaker is Back
- 2024-10-07 A Story of Alibaba Cloud DCDN Charging 1600 RMB in Just 32 Seconds [Repost]
- 2024-09-17 Alibaba Cloud: High Availability Disaster Recovery Myth Collapse
- 2024-09-15 Alibaba Cloud Outage Forecast: This Incident Will Last Until 20 Years Later?
- 2024-09-10 Alibaba Cloud Singapore AZ-C Outage, Rumored Data Center Fire
- 2024-08-20 Amateur Hour Drama: Alibaba Cloud RDS Disaster
- 2024-07-02 Alibaba Cloud Down Again, This Time Cable Cut?
- 2024-04-22 Cloud Computing: Being Bad is Original Sin
- 2024-04-20 taobao.com Certificate Expired
- 2024-04-02 Toothpaste Cloud? Please Stop Praising Cloud Providers
- 2024-04-01 Luo Yonghao Can’t Save Toothpaste Cloud
- 2024-03-21 Young People Lost in Alibaba Cloud
- 2024-03-10 Analyzing Cloud Computing Costs, Did Alibaba Cloud Really Cut Prices?
- 2023-11-29 From Cost Reduction Comedy to Real Cost Reduction and Efficiency
- 2023-11-27 Alibaba Cloud Weekly Explosion: Cloud Database Management Down Again
- 2023-11-14 What Can We Learn from Alibaba Cloud’s Epic Outage
- 2023-11-12 Alibaba Cloud Computing Epic Disaster
- 2023-11-09 Grab Alibaba Cloud Wool Now, 5000 RMB Cloud Server for 300
- 2023-11-06 Customers in Cloud Providers’ Eyes: Poor, Idle, and Lacking Love [Ma Gong]
Tencent Cloud
- 2024-04-17 Did Tencent Really Master the Cloud Native Path? [Ma Gong]
- 2024-04-14 What Can We Learn from Tencent Cloud’s Outage Postmortem?
- 2024-04-12 Is Cloud SLA Placebo or Toilet Paper Contract?
- 2024-04-09 Tencent Cloud: Face-Losing Amateur Hour
- 2024-04-08 Tencent Cloud Computing Epic Disaster Part 2
- 2023-03-08 Garbage Tencent Cloud CDN: From Getting Started to Giving Up
Cloudflare
- 2024-04-23 Cyber Bodhisattva Cloudflare Roundtable Interview and Q&A
- 2024-04-03 Cyber Buddha Cloudflare That Destroys Public Cloud
Microsoft
Oracle OCI
Others
- 2025-03-24 Today’s Big Drama: Cyber Buddha vs Cyber Bodhisattva Fight
- 2024-12-14 OpenAI Global Outage Postmortem: K8S Circular Dependency
- 2024-11-10 Amateur Hour Boomerang: Apple Music Certificate Expired Service Interruption
- 2024-10-04 Explosive!!! Domestic Internet Company Info Leak Caused Overseas Card Fraud
- 2024-10-03 This Account Received Meituan Complaint: Meituan Doesn’t Store External Card CVV
- 2024-10-02 Platform CVV Leak: Was Your Credit Card Fraudulently Used?
- 2024-08-21 This Time WPS Crashed
- 2024-09-19 What Can We Learn from NetEase Cloud Music Outage?
- 2024-08-15 GitHub Global Outage, Another Database Flip?
DHH
- 2025-03-30 DHH Cloud Exit: One Day Late Moving S3 Costs 40,000
- 2024-10-19 DHH: Cloud Exit Exceeded Expectations, Could Save $100 Million
- 2024-09-07 First Optimize Carbon-Based BIO Cores, Then Silicon CPU Cores
- 2024-01-16 Single Tenant Era: SaaS Paradigm Shift
- 2024-01-10 Refusing Complexity Masturbation, Cloud Exit Still Maintains Stable Operations
- 2023-12-22 Six Months Cloud Exit Saves Tens of Millions: DHH Cloud Exit FAQ
- 2023-10-29 Is It Time to Abandon Cloud Computing?
- 2023-07-07 Cloud Exit Odyssey
DBA vs RDS
- 2024-08-20 Amateur Hour Drama: Alibaba Cloud RDS Disaster
- 2024-03-14 RDS Castrated PostgreSQL’s Soul
- 2024-02-02 Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?
- 2023-03-01 Refuting “Again, Why You Shouldn’t Hire DBAs”
- 2023-02-03 Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First
- 2023-01-31 Is Cloud Database a Slaughter Plate
- 2023-01-31 Why Are You Still Recruiting DBAs? [Ma Gong]
- 2022-05-16 Cloud RDS: From Database Drop to Exit
Open Source Software
- 2024-10-17 WordPress Community Civil War: On Community Boundary Issues
- 2024-08-30 ElasticSearch Going Open Source Again???
- 2024-03-26 Redis Going Closed Source is a Disgrace to “Open Source” and Public Cloud
- 2023-02-03 Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First
Cloud Computing Mudslide Songs#
Sweet Punk: https://app.suno.ai/song/98f03bcd-5b4d-428f-a3f1-f581910d2e56
Funny Catchy: https://app.suno.ai/song/308069a2-9d97-41c0-b1a9-ce14eb137ffe
New Era: https://app.suno.ai/song/81e1b275-4652-4442-aa47-3127171d874d
Death Rock: https://app.suno.ai/song/6c203c72-0ce7-4b63-a447-a63b31080776
