• addie@feddit.uk
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    12 hours ago

    Can’t possibly be slower than GCP, either. Performance of BigQuery is something to behold.

    Cloud makes sense if you’ve a very ‘spiky’ load, I suppose. A website that needs one VM most of the year, but a hundred on a couple of days. Maybe your data processing needs 100 TB of storage a couple of times a month, but not the rest of the time. But for fixed, predictable bread-and-butter stuff?