alt Hacker NewsThose are negligible compared to a 100% availability / uptime cost to your business incurred from being a serf to a feudal tyrant with no name or face that enjoys abusing you.
Using GCP, AWS, or Azure is like volunteering to use your own money to rent heavy construction equipment to construct your own jail cell and excavate your own grave.
But hey, at least you get to avoid the capex on the heavy construction equipment, and it's always¹ available!
¹ except for when human error takes it offline for 14 hours straight
You're not just dealing with a massive bureaucracy, you're dealing with a massive automated bureaucracy whose rules aren't explicit, whose algorithms are buggy, and which can destroy your business on a whim with no recourse, without even noticing.