[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [GM] Consultation on RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2024

Many times that is indeed the intention, but the reality of the matter 
is most companies will shoe-horn stand-alone solutions into the "cloud" 
and not actually take advantage of it. If you try and 1:1 your resources 
from a stand alone deployment into the cloud it is often times much more 
expensive.



On 3/13/23 10:36, Josh Jameson wrote:
> Excuse my ignorance, but I'm pretty sure migration to cloud is meant to
> reduce costs - not increase them.
>
>
> On 13/03/2023 11:05, Daniel Pearson wrote:
>> RIPE is late to the party with migrating to the cloud.
>>
>> Many companies have already learned from this and conduct a hybrid
>> approach. I sure hope RIPE doesn't migrate to the cloud and come
>> complaining because they left auto-scale enabled on AWS and got hit with
>> a huge bill....
>>
>> I agree, RIPE needs to slim down, it has added 26 employees over the
>> last few years and yet their workload has decreased drastically due to
>> the lack of ipv4 resources.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/11/23 18:24, Alarig Le Lay via members-discuss wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue 07 Mar 2023 11:02:02 GMT, Kaj Niemi wrote:
>>>> An obvious option would be to reduce budgeted RIPE NCC expenditure to
>>>> the level of forecasted revenue. This is what most normal companies,
>>>> without assured funding, must do.
>>> I totally agree. If we look at the Draft Activity Plan and Budget 2023
>>> https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/october-2022/documentation-and-archive/draft-ripe-ncc-activity-plan-and-budget-2023
>>> Right in the summary it’s written “Other factors affecting our budget
>>> include high inflation and costs related to major projects planned for
>>> 2023, especially our planned migration of some services to the cloud”
>>> So, if the budget is scarce, why continue such project in the first
>>> place?
>>>
>>> With that being the first justification of the budget, it’s not
>>> sufficient to increase the members participation for me.
>>>
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