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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud (www.windowscentral.com)
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A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

From an IT operations perspective this makes so much sense they’ve already tried it before. They were called “thin clients” and just had enough compute and network to connect to run remote desktop software.

This greatly reduces the amount of spending you need to build out a large corporate network, and centralizes management just like they already do for servers with stuff like VMWare.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Eh, depends. The price for something like VMware horizon was already damn expensive and that's before you got to citrix prices (and this is pre broadcom takeover.)

For some places the costs are able to be recouped but it really depends. You still need plenty of scale to have that be viable IME.

My main point being there are a millions of small businesses and medium size ones that are still always going to be far better off with normal physical hardware.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm assuming privacy isn't an issue and they don't mind Amazon picking the winners in business.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Privacy doesn’t exist on corporate networks, so they don’t. However, the early thin clients had local servers. I don’t know how the very largest companies would feel about giving Amazon that much power.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The largest companies already host everything on the cloud.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

The largest companies are the cloud.